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TIL that US Government employees are formally banned from napping at work

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pk8 TIL that Apollo 11 carried pieces of the Wright Brothers’ plane to the moon in 1969 - just 66 years after the world’s first powered flight.
oBjD8 TIL: Biologists have observed a lizard lay eggs and give birth to live young in the same pregnancy for the first time.
QBLa TIL that when the atomic bomb was first tested, one of the physicists, Enrico Fermi, had a wager as to “whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world.”
OGnl6 TIL: Shakespeare's parents were illiterate. It’s quite likely that John and Mary Shakespeare never learned to read or write, John was known to sign his name with an X.
xVQak TIL that Rep. John Lewis gave one hell of a speech at the 1963 march on Washington