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x6a6D TIL THAT ST VALENTINE,S REMAINS ARE LOCATED IN THE WHITEFRIAR STREET CHURCH IN DUBLIN
kOMJ1 TIL By launch day, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins accumulated 400 hours in a command-module simulator, running emergency scenarios and rehearsing every step of the journey
Yprrx TIL 3 days before D-Day, a 21 year old Irish woman named Maureen Flavin took her hourly barometer reading and sent it to Dublin. She had no idea that this single data point would be sent directly to Eisenhower and averted disaster by delaying D-Day due to an incoming storm.