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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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5VNjQ TIL the song I only knew as the "Austin Powers Theme" was actually "Soul Bossa Nova" composed by Quincy Jones in 1962
Rl5Q TIL Fidel Castro set up his own recreation of the Kennedy assassination using Cuban military snipers and concluded Oswald couldn’t have acted alone.
RXv9 TIL that on April 18, 1930, the BBC reported, “There is no news.” They played piano music instead.
KOBNR TIL that Robert Morris, namesake of Robert Morris University, engaged in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and personally owned several slaves.
9wA9B TIL that trees existed for tens of millions of years before other organisms developed enzymes to digest them. Dead trees just laid on the ground and didn’t rot.