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TIL Japan Wants To Turn The Moon Into A Giant Power Plant

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a8j8N TIL about Phyllis Wheatley. She was an enslaved woman, and a published poet. She sent Washington a poem, in which she advocated for the equality of all men, regardless of race. He wrote her back and extended an invitation to visit him.
jNE6N TIL drinking alcohol makes you want to pee because for every 200 millilitres of beer you drink, your kidneys generate 320 millilitres of urine. “Breaking The Seal” is real.
4Jya TIL Apollo 17 astronaut Jack Schmitt earned the nickname “Twinkletoes” for his not so nimble moon walks.
nelvW TIL Harrison Ford was fitting a door for Francis Ford Coppola, when a studio executive, testing actresses for a new film, asked him to help out by reading the lines written by a male lead. The new film was Star Wars.
XnBR TIL the famous Blue Marble photograph was originally oriented with the south pole at the top but was reoriented to fit the more traditional view of north-up.