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TIL Apparently Easter Island's Heads Have Bodies

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Wkw8A TIL Sales of Lucky Strike cigarettes experienced an increase of 10 billion packets a year after being featured on the television Mad Men, in which it was a major client of Don Draper's advertising agency and his cigarette brand of choice.
p8ALO TIL: The International Space Station orbits about 220 miles above Earth. To put that in perspective, if Earth were the size of a basketball, the space station would be about 1/4 of an inch (<7mm) off the surface.
roAw TIL that one of the London suicide bombers went back to the casher in a restaurant because he didn’t get enough change, just one hour before he blew himself up in the subway
v1b6r TIL The Torch Relay was debuted in the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, infamously hosted by then Nazi Germany.
yQv9e TIL of Rope Memory where women would weave SOFTWARE by hand for the Apollo program