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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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Redw TIL that David Bowie never won a Grammy for Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Male Vocal Performance, or Best Rock Album.
Yp8a7 TIL that leap days were actually put into use since 46 BC by Julius Caesar after him personally consulting Greek astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria for the fact that one year was slightly longer than 365 days and if they continued with the existing calendar, July would eventually fall on winter.
l7J6N TIL McDonald's closed in Iceland, but the last burger and fries still linger on and are now in a glass encased shrine in a guest house in South Iceland. Twelve plus years later, neither appear to have decayed one bit.
M7Qa TIL that in 1953 the United States government detonated a nuclear bomb in Utah more powerful than Little Boy of Hiroshima. The bomb, nicknamed Harry, was known to the Utahans as Dirty Harry because of the large amount of fallout.
7rQ9r TIL that the "Magic Relationship Ratio," according to science, states that for every negative interaction during conflict, a stable and happy marriage has five (or more) positive interactions