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TIL The Man Who Created James Bond Also Wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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8aJ5G TIL that in Norse mythology only half of the dead fallen in battle go to Odin in Valhalla. The other half go to the goddess Freyja in the meadow of Fólkvangr
1d9d TIL NASA has decided to use Metric Units for all operations on the lunar surface when it returns to the Moon. The Vision for Space Exploration calls for returning astronauts to the Moon by 2020 and eventually setting up a manned lunar outpost.
9Yd6r TIL President John Adams drank a hard cider every morning at breakfast to settle his stomach
8ekmZ TIL a man named James Harrison had rare antigens for Rhesus disease. He donated plasma every week for 60 years and saved an estimated 2.4 million babies.
YpX4r TIL The full lyrics to "Oh My Darling, Clementine" recount the narrator falling in love with a woman named Clementine, but she drowns in a river so the narrator promptly goes for her little sister