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TIL the paving rocks of the Champs Élisées come from Saudi Arabia

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Zdda TIL that NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson calculated the trajectory for the space flight of Alan Shepard by hand, and was called on by NASA officials to verify the computer’s calculations of John Glenn’s orbit around Earth.
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