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TIL of the One Small Step Act, which gives legal protection to the Apollo Moon landing sites against possible inadvertent or intentional tampering. It passed the US Senate in 2019 and is awaiting a vote in the House of Representatives

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xVxdD TIL Siegfried and Roy were fired from their first gig together for bringing a live cheetah on a cruise ship.
njMG TIL The Great Pyramids Were Originally Bright White
44RJ TIL the Taliban buy children as young as seven years old to act as suicide bombers, the price ranges from $7,000-$14,000.
Z8vGp TIL that 1984 by George Orwell was banned in the USSR for being Anti-Communist, but also banned in the USA for being Pro-Communist.
RMb7 TIL that in 1945, Dwight D. Einsenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered innumerable pictures to be taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.