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TIL Neil Armstrong became a professor after he walked on the moon, teaching aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati.

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4kpMJ TIL about the theory of Spontaneous Generation, which held that many types of animal would randomly form from things like mud and dust
Z884D TIL Adidas purchased its famous 3-stripe logo from Karhu Sports in 1952, for two bottles of whiskey, and the equivalent of 1600 euros
4kNVJ TIL Petroleum County MT is bigger in size than Rhode Island but has just 494 people
vPNmD TIL that animal snare traps are fully banned in some states
78r8b TIL the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a whole handbook on allowable defect limits for various foods, such as 400 insect fragments being allowed per 50 grams of ground cinnamon and 4.5 rodent hairs being allowed per 225 grams of noodles.