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TIL the Smithsonian raised $700k on Kickstarter in an effort to conserve the spacesuit that Neil Armstrong wore to walk on the moon, because NASA built it to with a life expectancy of 6 months

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l7NJK TIL Chicago reversed the flow of the Chicago River because it drained sewage into Lake Michigan where many got/get their drinking water from.
WEoA TIL that the thermal energy released from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius which devastated Pompeii in AD 79 was 100,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bombing.
jxVR TIL that the fastest road in USA is in Austin, Texas. It has a speed limit of 85 mph.
Z88KD TIL of A dovecote or dovecot /ˈdʌvkɒt/ (Scots: doocot) a structure intended to house pigeons or doves. They generally contain pigeonholes for the birds to nest. Pigeons and doves were an important food source historically in Western Europe and were kept for their eggs, flesh, and dung.
mQ1M TIL in the original Silent Hill video game, the fog covering the town was put in the game because of hardware limitations. Covering the town in fog meant that only the area surrounding the player at any given moment needed to be rendered