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TIL Gut bacterias talk to our brain and influence our mood, energy level, appetite, memory and personality.

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loLZG TIL From 1913 until it was outlawed in 1920, some parents would send their babies to travel destinations through the US Post Office because it was less expensive then traveling together.
b9b7 TIL: The Fallen Astronaut Memorial sculpture and plaque (the only piece of art on the moon) was smuggled onto Apollo 15 and installed in Mons Hadley without the knowledge of NASA and has not been commercialized.
6Xo8 TIL that One can crack an apple in half with nothing but bare hands
E987 TIL the first man made aircraft to successfully land on another planet and send back data was the Soviet Venera 7 in 1970. After landing on Venus, the craft sent back only 23 minutes of weak data, presumably because it landed on its side.
a8pQN TIL That General Leslie Groves who was the Director of the Manhattan Project, which help develop the first atomic bomb, had previously been in charge of the construction of the office building which would eventually become the Pentagon.