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TIL India’s moon orbiter took photos of the Apollo landing site, debunking the conspiracy theory that the US faked the moon landings.

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78Q4b TIL In 1815, Jefferson sold his 6,700-volume personal library to Congress for $23,950 to replace books lost when the British burned the U.S. Capitol, which housed the Library of Congress, during the War of 1812. Jefferson's books formed the foundation of the rebuilt Library of Congress's collections
VV4 TIL of Betty Robinson, an Olympic runner who was involved in a fatal plane crash in 1931 and was wrongly pronounced dead upon first being discovered. It took 2 years for her to regain the ability to walk again, but in 1936 she rejoined the US Olympic relay team and took home the gold medal.
QDn6 TIL - Two scientists skinned, boiled and swallowed a shrew without chewing it, and then carefully examined the excrement and how the carcass reacts within the human digestive system. They were rewarded the ‘Ig Noble Prize’ for their findings.
N74WJ TIL in 1842, the British had an army of 16,000 men retreating from Kabul, Afghanistan. Only one man survived after losing some of his skull, protected by a magazine stored in his hat. He arrived in Jalalabad and when asked where the army was, he stated "I am the army".
ZpVOQ TIL wasps are valuable pest control agents and pollinators.