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TIL a Study Suggests That Mormons Can Be Picked Out From Other People By Sight Alone

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xB4D TIL that the fabric and wood pieces from the Wright Brothers airplane were flown on the Apollo 11 mission and were in the lunar module Eagle that landed on the Moon with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr.
QJrvL TIL that classic rock musician Todd Rundgren formed a band in Philly in the late-60’s called Nazz that was moderately successful, while at the same time in Phoenix another band formed calling themselves Nazz also, but after releasing one single they moved to LA and renamed themselves Alice Cooper
LQjP TIL the largest multi-purpose stadium in the world belongs to North Korea (with a capacity of 150,000), and an execution was staged there in the late 1990s
QJBM TIL that Karen Carpenter died on the same day that her divorce was supposed to be finalized. At her funeral her husband took off his wedding ring and threw it into her casket.
Y78YW TIL A microscope can simply be reversed to make a telescope. Both telescopes and microscopes were in use in Holland by the end of the sixteenth century