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TIL in 2021 Interstellar Technologies launched their TENGA Rocket named after their main sponsor; the adult toy manufacturer of the same name. Onboard was a masturbator equipped with sensors whose data was to be used to develop them for space use.

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EgQex TIL that there is a profession called neonatal bereavement photography and they use water immersion to take the photographs.
mxg8v TIL According to a poll from 2019, Americans are among the most stressed-out people in the world.
mxG1p TIL in 1965. 6 boys from a catholic school were shipwrecked on a deserted island named 'Ata after a storm took their stolen boat out to sea for 8 days. They found the ruins of Kolomaile, a 19th century village in a volcanic crater, surviving off feral chickens, wild taro and banana for 15 months,
oyLR TIL: There is an intact cask of plutonium dioxide on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean because Apollo 13 failed to land on the moon
aQ60 TIL in 1953, an amateur astronomer saw and photographed a bright white light on the lunar surface. He believed it was a rare asteroid impact, but professional astronomers dismissed and disputed “Stuart’s Event” for 50 years. In 2003, NASA looked for and found the crater.