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p8wyN TIL 24 astronauts flew around the moon. 12 of those walked on the lunar surface, and 6 of those drove a lunar rover on the moon. 3 astronauts have been out to the moon twice, and of those 3, 2 of them have landed. Nobody has been on the moon more than once.
x6Ov1 TIL In the Sixth Dynasty, the Pharaoh elevated a physician named Iri to "Shepherd of the King’s Anus", a great honor.
oBWKY TIL Skyfall Lodge, the Scottish ancestral home of James Bond which features heavily in the movie Skyfall, was just a wooden framed set located on a UK Mininstry of Defence site in Surrey, England.
Y7XkP TIL that there has never been a state or federal law on the books that prohibited killing a praying mantis. Since the 1950s, a rumor has circulated that killing a praying mantis carries a fine.
NXmJ8 TIL Many of Benny Blanco's early tracks are at 120 BPM, the default tempo in Pro Tools, and he didn't realize he could adjust it, so he ended up using that tempo for many of his initial projects. This included hits like Kesha's "Tik Tok," Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream," and Taio Cruz's "Dynamite”