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TIL the Mission Command Center, used by NASA for such missions as the Apollo 11 moon landing, was built by Philco-Ford, a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company.

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8eeDa TIL Nobel winner James Watson wrote "The Double Helix" in a fiction like style to attract young people in science. He originally wanted to title his memoir "Honest Jim", and then "Base Pairs", but his co-discoverer Francis Crick had issues with it
7rNdL Homesick student Kleon Papadimitriou biked 48 days to make it back home to his family during lockdown!
BrW4K TIL that the most weight gained for a role was 70 lbs (32 kg), which Vincent D'Onofrio did for Pvt. Leonard Lawrence in "Full Metal Jacket." The role was initially written as a "skinny ignorant redneck," but director Stanley Kubrick felt the character would have more impact if he was big and clumsy.
NXeYN TIL Nutmeg is a hallucinogen because it contains myristicin, a natural compound that has mind-altering effects if ingested in large doses.
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