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TIL Water Bears Can Survive in Space

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LkYp TIL that the first thing Buzz Aldrin did upon stepping foot on the moon was to hold a communion service but NASA kept it a secret because they were “still smarting from the lawsuit filed by Madalyn Murray O'Hair” regarding the Genesis readings on Apollo 8.
GYEm5 TIL That this day 125 years ago physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen becomes the first person to observe X-rays a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields most of all medicine by making the invisible visible.
VB1Rp Today I learned about Claire Weekes. Known as the woman who “cracked” the anxiety code. A pioneer of modern anxiety treatments and author of “Hope and Help for Your Nerves”.
yVyMv TIL In some places in history counterfeitting coins was punishable with being boiled alive in oil
v1Ax4 TIL astronomer Harlow Shapley firmly believed that there was only one galaxy in the universe but when he was presented with an evidence that disproved his view, he said "it destroyed his universe." Then he completely changed his view and devoted his subsequent career in mapping 76,000 galaxies.