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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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b9BwZ TIL The original Icelandic male settlers were 60-80% Norse and a similar percentage of Women were Gaelic from Ireland and Scotland.
GAmlj TIL That in 2007 a 53 year old woman died from a stroke and four people recieved kidneys, lungs and liver transplants from her. All four of them developed breast cancer, with three of them dying from it. The donor had breast cancer that hadn't been found at the time of her death.
4XN7J TIL the National Trust implores us to stop urinating in a toilet, in order to save the water used in flushing, and instead wee onto compost heaps, which speeds up the chemical process of decomposition, making it a better fertiliser to grow vegetables and save even more energy in reducing food miles.
KYVg6 TIL that even with an orbital velocity of 490,000 MPH, the sun has only circled the Milky Way 18-20 times.
LQEMm TiL that the Serge Gainsbourg/Jane Birkin song "Je t'aime... moi non plus" was so controversial that the Vatican allegedly excommunicated the record executive who released it in Italy. Birkin said this led to Gainsbourg calling the Pope "our greatest PR man".