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TIL for the first Moon landing, the average age of NASA controllers was 26 years old.

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QNMO9 TIL many commonly used statistical methods, such as Student's t-test, were invented by the head brewer at Guiness Brewery for quality control
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N7BQ8 TIL that there is a slow motion camera that can record 10 trillion frames per second. This is fast enough to actually see light travel from point to point.