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TIL Pete Conrad (3rd Man on Moon) to prove a journalist wrong who thought the government told the astronauts what to say while on the moon bet her $500 dollars and said, "Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me." According to him, he never got that $500.

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ANlda TIL that model Evelyn Nesbit became known for her involvement in a feud between her husband Harry Thaw and infamous architect Stanford White who drugged and assaulted her at the age of 16, this led to Thaw murdering White inside Madison Square Garden II in the year 1906.
PYvAn TIL a horse produces about 15 horsepower. Elite human athletes like Usain Bolt can produce about 3.5hp at their peak.
RNbw TIL that on the first season of the US Kitchen Nightmares, every restaurant but two closed, including one where the chef committed suicide
6xQ8 TIL that the Voyager 2 carried a tape recorder whose reels rotated at high speeds which caused issues with its operations. Due to the conservation of angular momentum, the space probe started an undesirable rotation in the opposite direction whenever the tape recorder was turned on.
168yP TIL A Japanese realtor "kidnapped" high school girls just to teach them about real estate and prepare them for the licensing exam