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TIL Apollo-11 trajectory to the Moon is named "Kondratyuk Route" after a self-educated Ukrainian who had calculated it 50 years before the lunar flight

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vPxd7 TIL that a new type of roar was discovered in African lions. Besides the classic “full-throated” roar, researchers using AI analysis found an “intermediate” lion roar previously unknown. This might help conservation-efforts through deeper insights on how lions communicate in the wild.
N7Zne TIL that it was Theodore Hall, a scientist working at Los Alamos during WWII, who gave the designs of the atomic bomb to the Soviets. He did so because he did not want the USA to have a monopoly on nuclear weapons. He was never charged for his crimes.
R5Pv4 TIL the United States actually achieved legal independence from Britain with the passage of the Lee Resolution, two days prior to the Declaration of Independence. Wrote John Adams: "The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America"
Zp6yY TIL Fritz the Cat is the first animated film to receive an X rating. The plot follows a womanizing cat in New York City who smokes weed, accidentally starts a riot, and ends with him in the hospital having group sex with three women.
QNdnM TIL of The Colossus of Prora, a 2.8 mi / 4.5 km long building complex on the island of Rügen, built by Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1939