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TIL that NASA took measures to prevent microorganisms from returning to Earth on/in the Apollo capsules, because they weren’t positive that there wasn’t life on the Moon.

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jNW0M TIL Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labor. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem and gave birth to Jack Black
491J TIL - That in 1916, there was a proposed amendment to the US Constitution that would have put Declarations of War to a National vote, and those voting for War would automatically volunteer for Military service.
pY7je TIL that a Jewish Wrestler won a gold medal by defeating a German Wrestler in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, which was ruled by the Nazis and a showcase to prove German superiority. Nazi Germany didn’t win any gold medals in Wrestling
9YaP6 TIL Atlantropa was a gigantic engineering colonisation idea devised by the German architect Herman Sörgel in the 1920s. The project was devised to contain several hydroelectric dams in key points of the Mediterranean Sea to cause a sea level drop and create new land to settle.
j6jaX TIL I learned that the the town of Boring (Oregon, US) established relationship with village of Dull (Scotland, UK) in 2012; the following year they were joined with the Shire of Bland (New South Wales, AU) to form the League of Extraordinary Communities.