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TIL Alan Shepard peed in his spacesuit moments before becoming the first American in space

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P1pLV TIL that objects known as optical frequency multipliers can double the frequency of a beam of light. This means that it's possible for them to convert invisible light (infrared) into visible light
57PD TIL that Axl Rose first heard the famous lines from Welcome to the Jungle (“DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?” “YOU’RE IN THE JUNGLE, BABY!” “YOU’RE GONNA DIE!”) from an old guy in NYC when he hitchhiked there as a young man
69deX TIL about the origins of the expression “the toolies” (the Aussie version is NSFW)
oBKPo TIL of the Newport Sex Scandal in 1919, when male navy recruits investigating homosexuality in Rhode Island had sex with men, and then testified against them in trials against sodomy
nerG TIL that a 14 year old boy has managed to have over 12 billion trees planted all over the world