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TIL that two of the Apollo missions carried seismic experiments that fired rocket propelled grenades up to 1500 meters. Five of the grenades remain on the moon, unexploded.

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Z8mDv TIL Spaceballs wasn't the the first Star Wars parody, a 13 minute short titled Hardware Wars released in 1978 was the first. With a production cost of $8k and box office of $1million it even beat the earnings ratio of Star Wars. During a 1999 interview George Lucas named it his favorite.
XnKD TIL that America: The Story of Us was filmed in South Africa and uses mostly South African actors.
wLjMY TIL In Sri Lanka, reservoirs built more than thousand years ago are still used today
N7y6 TIL there is a plot of land between Egypt and Sudan claimed by no country.
ld61 TIL: The racist use of ‘coon’ started out as a political insult. The Whig party used a raccoon as it’s emblem, and were referred to as “coons” by their opponents. In the 1830s the Whig’s were seen a too sympathetic to African-Americans.