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

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n9AY TIL that many of the minor characters from The Wire are played by real-life police officers, politicians and former criminals. In fact, many of the former criminals who act on the show were previously arrested by the real-life cops who act on the show.
VJED TIL: There is a device that harvests energy from WiFi signals which can then be converted to electricity to charge mobile devices.
J1Lbm TIL that the longest chess game in history took over 20 hours to complete and ended in a draw.
0EBL TIL that employees and customers of the popular grocery chain Market Basket successfully boycotted the company after its beloved CEO was fired. During the monumental protests, Market Basket lost an estimated 10$ Million per day.
PVeZ TIL that the silent horror film “The Unknown” (1927) was missing for many years in the archives of Cinematheque Francaise because they had hundreds of film cans marked “unknown”.