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TIL the US Government considered nuking the Moon just to intimidate the Soviets

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xnWB TIL: There are now more than 100 wild wallabies living on the Isle of Man, between Great Britain & Ireland, after 2 of the Australian marsupials escaped from a wildlife park in the 1970s
Agjl TIL Everyone’s brain starts out as female. The brain of males begins to become masculinized around eight weeks after conception by the male hormone testosterone.
9Rbr TIL that Oklahoma’s state vegetable is a watermelon
Rvow TIL of a social experiment a teacher created in the 80s to show kids that a “New Hitler” could emerge at any time. The movie based on the true story is called The Wave.
9Yl8G TIL of St. Maria Skobtsova, an ex-revolutionary, twice married, smoking nun that helped forge baptismal certificates for Parisian Jews; she was discovered by the Gestapo, and died at Ravensbruck on Holy Saturday, 1945.