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TIL Carl Sagan was part of Project A119, a project whose goal was to explode a nuclear weapon on the moon.

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epPLE TIL that Nintendo's first video game console was the Color TV Game in 1977, which Mitsubishi helped make. The console was not sold outside of Japan, and had simple variations of Pong on it.
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xvok TIL that whenever German victories were announced on the radio in occupied Denmark, the Danish Resistance would cut into the broadcast and play “It Ain’t Necessarily So” from Porgy and Bess.
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XEPGX TIL that when Allen Iverson was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016, he became the first (and still only) former Grizzlies player to be inducted, a distinction he earned despite playing only three games for Memphis in 2009