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TIL NASA has their own SWAT Team

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rR5X1 TIL In the UK there are 53 'Thankful Villages' where all of the troops that left to fight in WWI returned alive. Of that list 13 are 'Doubly Thankful' and had the same fortune in WWII
Q4na TIL that the egg industry puts male and female chicks on a conveyor belt and after picking out the males, throws them into a grinding machine alive.
Aeja TIL Patrick Stewart (age 76) is married to a 38 year old American woman
p8WOp TIL Ann Druyan, a member of the team that assembled the Golden Record for the Voyager, recorded her brainwaves to put on it. A few days before, she and Carl Sagan professed their love to each other. So somewhere in space is a golden disc with the recorded brainwaves of someone madly in love.
4Qw6 TIL That slaves were forbidden from owning musical instruments as they were used to communicate. Congo Square in New Orleans was the only place slaves were allowed to gather every Sunday, to trade, sing, dance and play music. this led to the birth of Jazz