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TIL that all the songs in "Singin' in the Rain" besides "Moses Supposes" and "Make Em Laugh" are originally from other movies.

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eBGb TIL when Astronaut Ed Mitchell was asked what it’s like to stand on the moon, he said: “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’
grv6A TIL that you're never more than 115 miles from a Mcdonald's Restaurant in the continental U.S.
v1EOj TIL that the name of the Royal Navy ship HMS Petard means "HMS Fart". A petard is a small bomb that derives its name from middle French for “to break wind.” Pun-loving Shakespeare probably knew this when he wrote “hoist with his own petard” - or to be blasted with his own fart
YXwx TIL That there are spiders who are social and live in colonies. A single nest was reported to be over 25 feet in length, 6-8 feet wide and 4-5 feet high – perhaps the home to 50,000 spiders.
rRdBM TIL in 1918 Russia, the Romanov family were brutally executed (with an even more disturbing burial). The Romanov children survived the initial spray of bullets and attack with bayonets because their clothes were lined with more about 1.3kg diamonds and gemstones each, as an improvised armour.