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TIL that NASA lost the original Moon landing footage by accidentally reusing the tapes.

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e0QV5 TIL that during WWII Polish children and women were given refuge by an Indian king.
epmnE TIL that the Massive Attack song Unfinished Symphony is actually called Unfinished Sympathy
GljN TIL the first movie that had zombies caused by an engineered plague was Things to Come, ca. 1936
8eEBb TIL it is possible to convert heat directly into electricity, with something called a Thermionic Generator. Humans are unfortunately not great at building them (yet).
v1MYR TIL The equivalents of the idiom “It’s all Greek to me” in world languages use other kinds of languages other than Greek.