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TIL the difference between a cemetery and a graveyard is cemeteries are considered burial grounds while the older term graveyards is considered burial grounds attached to a church.

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OoBmX NASA put 12 astronauts on the moon between 1969 and 1972. With the death Friday of Apollo 16’s John Young, only five of those astronauts are still alive, and they range in age from 82 to 87. No human being has been beyond low Earth orbit since the end of the Apollo program.
V8PD TIL that the greek origin of the word “idiot” was used to mean someone who did not participate in politics and public affairs
4klvo TIL In 1987, an 18-month old girl, Jessica McClure, fell 22 feet into a well in her aunt’s property in Midland, Texas. The rescue took 58 hours and was televised on CNN, the first 24 hr news station.
8eggb TIL Cathode-ray tubes, the technology behind old TVs and monitors, were in fact particle accelerators that beamed electrons into screens to generate light and then images
4X1KN TIL that Derby County FC, ground is called the the baseball ground. As it was used for play baseball between 1890 and 1898. Then for football (soccer) 1895 to 1997.