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TIL NVIDIA digitally rendered the moon landing, which revealed why Buzz Aldrin seemed too brightly illuminated on the moon landing picture: he was illuminated by light reflected from the Moon’s surface and Armstrong’s spacesuit

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WpeX TIL there are millions of chemical bombs lying in our oceans after being dumped there after the first and second world war, because authorities didn’t have a way to dispose of them properly.
KOgXQ TIL that Roman gladiators and legionnaires ate a vegetarian diet consisting of 78% carbohydrates, mainly from wheat or barley
YwXA TIL two women tried to smuggle their dead relative’s body onto a flight by putting him in a wheelchair and putting sunglasses on him. It was only when airport staff tried to check him in and he wouldn’t respond that suspicions were raised
x6ev7 TIL that an early draft of the Declaration of Independence included a passage written by Thomas Jefferson condemning slavery, but was struck out in compliance to South Carolina and Georgia.
E1Q77 TIL all 66 characters with speaking roles in the 1984 cartoon series ThunderCats were voiced by only eight actors, with each actor voicing an average of 8.25 characters.