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TIL that lead exposure correlates with low IQ and aggresssion, and that many violent areas in the world still use lead gasoline

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X8Or TIL the word “umbrage,” i.e. “take umbrage” (take offense) is from the Latin “umbra,” or parasol, and used to be a synonym for “shade.” “He took umbrage at the suggestion” literally = someone was throwing shade at him.
69RNm TIL a man called Eugene Shoemaker, a pioneer of planetary science and a founder of astrogeology became the first and only person to be buried on the moon when his ashes arrived there with the Lunar Prospector spacecraft on July 31, 1999.
kOV94 TIL — Erin Hunter (Warriorcats) is the name of eight authors who all work on the books
OoLEY TIL In August 2006, NASA announced that they had lost all of their original tapes of Apollo 11's TV transmission of the first humans landing on the moon
womx8 TIL in the ‘60s, filmmaker Bob Clark, driving en route to a date, heard writer Jean Shepherd's childhood stories on a radio broadcast. After circling a block for an hour till the broadcast ended, Clark was inspired to create a movie based on Shepherd’s tales. The outcome? 1983’s "A Christmas Story."