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TIL Stupidity is in essence not an intellectual defect but a moral one

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nWl5o TIL the astronauts from the 1st moon landing were quarantined with mice for two weeks. If the mice survived, the astronauts would be let out
woNe8 TIL Biggie sampled trumpeteer Herb Alpert in "Hypnotize"... go to 3:20 mark in the song
JJol TIL that one of the first people to be killed by a robot was Kenji Urada, a Japanese engineer working at a Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant. While working on a broken robot, he failed to turn it off completely, resulting in the robot pushing him into a grinding machine with its hydraulic arm.
R7YO9 TIL Until it became independent in 1991, Belarus, formerly known as Belorussia or White Russia, was the smallest of the three Slavic republics included in the Soviet Union. The territory that is now Belarus underwent partition and changed hands repeatedly
78EJZ TIL that in 1987, orcas (killer whales) from three different pods in Puget Sound, adopted a trend of wearing salmon as hats.