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TIL that Thad Roberts, an intern at NASA, stole roughly $21 million worth of moon rocks from NASA with the aid of his girlfriend. He loaded a 600 pound safe containing ~101 grams of samples and wheeled it out of the complex, destroying 30 years of the chief scientist’s research in the process.

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4WbN TIL that mother cats will eat their sick or dead kittens to stop predators from discovering the location of the litter.
v19DB TIL The Boston Light is the only manned lighthouse in the United States
KZw6 TIL that the croissant, due to a legend that it was created to celebrate Christian victories over Islam, has been banned by some Islamic fundamentalists.
OoMYR TIL that in 1995 an inmate tried to sue himself for $5 Million because he violated his own civil rights by getting arrested - then asked the state to pay because he has no income in jail
aDDZ TIL that the NES gun used in duck hunt worked by you pulling the trigger, making the screen flash, surrounding the ducks (targets) in white and the diode in the gun begin reception. The photodiode in the gun detects the change in light intensity and tells the computer that it’s pointed at a target.