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TIL There were thirty married astronauts during the Gemini and Apollo programs—all but seven marriages ended in divorce

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BLy TIL that billions of Argentine ants around the world all actually belong to one single global mega-colony. The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.
D1G8D TIL about Banjawarn station in Western Australia, once owned by the Japanese cult responsible for the 1995 sarin subway attacks. They used the extremely remote property to experiment with chemical weapons and due to an unexplained seismic event some believe they detonated a nuclear bomb.
WBNA TIL Bill Gates’ mother was part of IBM’s board of directors and helped him get the crucial deal to sell DOS which would put Microsoft on the map.
Bry0D TIL a hypnic jerk is a brief and sudden involuntary contraction of the muscles of the body which occurs when a person (not only me apparently) is beginning to fall asleep, often causing the person to jump and awaken suddenly for a moment
xVVk TIL Californians don’t pay sales tax on fast food if they utter the magic words “To Go”.