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TIL during the Apollo 12 mission, a 2 ½ ton piece of the Lunar Module was experimentally crashed onto the surface of the moon. The unexpected result? The moon “rang like a bell” for nearly an hour.

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6MEZ TIL when asked about same-sex marriage in 1970, Richard Nixon said “I can’t go that far; that’s the year 2000! Negroes [and whites], okay. But that’s too far!”
ADdpa TIL Cesar Chavez had a dog named Boycott who taught him "to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings." He said “Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bullfighting, and rodeos are all cut from the same defective fabric: violence.”
4k676 TIL that when Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, journalist Giovanna Chirri was the first to break the news as she was the only one to understand Latin. She recalls: "He said it in Latin and I was panicking. I was short of breath, my legs were trembling, it was a reaction to shock."
7ENb TIL that Will Smith refused to play the role of Mohammed Ali for 8 years, fearing he wasn’t up for the job of playing the man he called the “greatest figure over the last 100 years”, stating “I absolutely, positively did not want to be the dude that messed up the Muhammad Ali story.”
BDAk TIL of David Burke, a disgruntled ex-employee of an airline company who was able to board a plane, shoot his former boss and the pilots, and crashed the plane, killing a total of 43 people.