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TIL that the average age of NASA engineers at the time of Apollo 11 was 28. Nowadays it’s 47

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yQ08 TIL that in the summer of 2004 a man named Richard Clam waited 3 days for the shotgun seat of a helicopter giving grand canyon tours only to commit suicide by opening the door at 4000 feet and jumping from the aircraft.
XEVGD TIL When the space shuttle was in operation, it could launch a payload of 27,500 kg for $1.5 billion, or $54,500/kg. For a SpaceX Falcon 9, the rocket used to access the ISS, the cost is just $2,720/kg. SpaceX’s technical advances and cost reductions have changed the direction of U.S. space policy.
W71g8 TIL that in 1978, anti-apartheid activist Donald Woods became the first private citizen to speak before the United Nations Security Council.
R9j4 TIL after Nintendo won their 1985 case against Universal Studios over their game Donkey Kong, they thanked their attorney with a $30,000 sailboat named Donkey Kong and “exclusive worldwide rights to use the name for sailboats”.
l7xKA TIL 98% of passengers involved in vehicle crashes in Dubai were not wearing seat belts