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TIL: The Apollo Rocket was mostly handmade.

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wEM6 TIL in NY state if you are a man who has had sex with another man since 1977, even once you can never donate blood
J1648 TIL tilefish were a very popular food in the US during the late 1800s. It was discovered by a sea captain and his crew who found it to be very tasty. Its popularity decreased after all tilefish were killed due to getting trapped in cold water. It took decades for tilefish to be caught again.
OoOoa TIL that in 2005 a group of reporters swab tested 46 bathrooms in the EU parlament for traces of drugs. 41 of them tested positive for cocaine.
DMEv TIL that in the late 1800’s, Doctors would infect sick patients with a secondary disease, in order to cure them of the primary one eg. a patient with syphilis would be injected with malaria, to give them a fever and thus, cure them (Most prominently by Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg)
16ngD TIL of the North American Water and Power Alliance, a proposed plan to divert water from The Yukon in Alaska to Southern California, Texas, and the Great Lakes