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TIL Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name is Moon.

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AN1wg TIL Sisyphus, doomed to roll a boulder forever, wasn’t a victim - he was an evil manipulative king who killed guests and unhonourably cheated Death. His punishment was for his calculated cruelty, a way of saying, there you go, you beat death, enjoy your eternity.
x6Jag TIL that Voyager 1 is so far from us that the light distance between us is ≈22 hours. That means that Voyager see 22h in the past if it could look at Earth.
loYjK TIL Denver, Colorado is the only city to be awarded the Olympic Games to reject them.
KOdoJ TIL Acne is caused because we evolved to lose body hair faster than our glands adapted, meaning they produce oil to lubricate hair that isn't there resulting in a build up.
rm4o TIL That NASA is not the only space program in the United States. NASA is the civilian space program. The other is the Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC), highly classified with barely any information found on its technology or its explorations.