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TIL that NASA is planning to send another manned mission, Artemis 3, to land on the lunar surface in 2024. This mission will see not only the next man to step foot on the moon, but the first woman.

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N7nLQ TIL: a 'State of Emergency ' in Tasmania allows authorized officers to dispose of human remains in the manner that the authorized officer considers appropriate despite any law that would otherwise prevent or restrict that disposal.
D14Lp TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger made his first million dollars in real estate during the 70s, years before starring in his first movie.
JY11m TIL approximately 80000 Americans who were born in the last 50 years have contracted or will contract cancer as a result of American nuclear tests conducted in Nevada and the Pacific ocean. Soviet tests in Kazakhstan, eastern Russia. French tests in the Pacific and British tests at Christmas Island
9EJm TIL in The Island of Dr. Moreau Marlon Brando wore a small radio receiver to aid him remembering his lines. Co-Star David Thewlis claimed “He’d be in the middle of a scene and suddenly he’d be picking up police messages and Marlon would repeat, ‘There’s a robbery at Woolworths’.”
BrZBd TIL of a serious plan to disassemble the Giza pyramids to use it as pre-cut building material in 1830s, proposed by ruler Muhammad Ali Pasha, but cleverly the plan was canceled due to false cost reports presented by his French chief engineer, who thought it would be the only way to save the pyramids