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TIL that Neil Armstrong only believed he had a 50/50 chance of making it back to Earth

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P1xae TIL that at the time of The Titanic’s sinking, a magazine story about a ship sinking from an iceberg collision in the Atlantic was out in circulation. The author of this story Thornton Jenkins Hains, was writing under a pseudonym after having been disgraced in society for involvement in a murder.
grgWD TIL the US military uses jet fuel (JP-8) not only in planes, but in ground vehicles like tanks aswell
9w7BG TIL the idiom "Keeping up with the Joneses" came from a comic strip of the same name that ran in U.S. newspapers from 1913-1940. It featured the McGinis family, often struggling to keep up socially and materially with their neighbors, the unseen Joneses.
BE0d TIL there is an entire movie made from the deleted scenes of “Anchorman” called “Wake Up Ron Burgundy The Lost Movie”
yQeev TIL that Canada, which is 1.4% Sikh, has more Sikhs than any country other than India (1.9% Sikh)