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TIL NASA accidentally recorded over the original moon landing tapes and lost a critical piece of human history forever

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Lk6Yv TIL that in former US President Gerald Ford’s senior year as a football player at the University of Michigan, when Georgia Tech refused to play if a black player named Willis Ward (and Ford’s best friend on the team) took the field, Ford threatened to quit the team in response
xVpZk TIL Greenland has four distinct Time Zones that cross its boundaries but the country is broken up into UTC0, UTC-1, UTC-3 and UTC-4. UTC-2 is only used during daylight savings. UTC0 is outside the country but the weather station Danmarkshavn, is set to European time for ease of reporting.
KYdJG TIL Attractive female students no longer earned higher grades when classes moved online during the pandemic
8eBZV TIL that armadillos are great swimmers above and below water, capable of going minutes without breathing.
OXd7 TIL Michelle Pfeiffer was taken in by a cult early in her career and gave them most of her acting money. She was deprogrammed as a result of a movie on the subject.