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TIL that the story of NASA spending millions on a space pen is a lie.The pen was invented by a man called Paul Fisher who sold it to NASA for $6 a pen.

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JYNdV TIL Sharon Tate dreamed her death two years before she was murdered
rN1n1 TIL on our billions years old planet, trees have only been around for 400M years. For the first 40M bacteria, fungus, mold, yeast, and animals had NFI what to do with them. So trees just got old and fell over. 40M years of perfectly fine baseball bats and chesterfields just laying around the place.
DQDar TIL the lyrics of the closing song from the movie 'Gladiator' are in a made-up language
BrXGy TIL the equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
rRamd TIL of Operation Pastorius, a German WWII mission of sabotage inside the United States. It failed primarily due to defections, but was in danger of being compromised right from the start as one of the agents, when drunk, announced to patrons at a bar in Paris that he was a secret agent.