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TIL USA spent about 24 billion dollars on the “Saturn-Apollo” program until 1969, which would correspond to the sum of about 150 billion dollars today. It was the price to pay to make history, for the first people on the Moon to be American astronauts.

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b6yMN TIL Check Point Technologies, one of the largest cybersecurity firms in the US, reported last year that over the previous year they saw a substantial increase in AI-based scams that mimic the voices of loved ones in distress. In total, Americans lost about $10 billion to phone & cyber scams in 2022.
ORP7 TIL that Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, owns a mountain in West Texas inside of which he is funding the construction of a 200 ft. clock designed to last 10,000 years.
OGA76 TIL Two sailors died when trying to salute then VP Millard Fillmore (Roadside America)
epA8J TIL that Julius Caesar suffered from seizures likely caused by epilepsy.
WkA1X TIL almond extract is often commercially made from the inside of peach pits, not almonds at all.