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TIL Harry Patch, the last surviving combat soldier of WW1 to have fought in the trenches, died aged 111 years, 1 month, 1 week and 1 day

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6EdJw TIL that the backup crew for Apollo 12 (who later crewed Apollo 15) played a joke on the main crew by inserting Playboy photos into their wrist mounted checklists worn on the surface of the moon. Nude photos went to the moon 14 years before the first US woman in space.
OoY07 TIL of physicist Lene Hau, who in 1999 led a team at Harvard University that was able to slow down a beam of light to 38mph and in 2001 they successfully stopped a beam of light.
AMd TIL that 50% of the worlds golf courses are in the United States
9RkG TIL one of the founding members of modern Wicca pretended to raise the dead by reading a Swiss roll recipe backwards.
dDLZQ TIL: In 1904, a man survived falling over Niagara Falls without a barrel, becoming the first recorded unprotected fall survivor.