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TIL: Sweden made slavery illegal as early as 1337
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TIL On APOLLO mission 14, Alan Shepard smuggled in a custom made 6 iron golf club head which attached to a rock collector, and proceeded to hit 2 gold balls on the lunar surface.
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TIL that in 2012, an thief stole a Dali off the wall of a gallery in broad daylight but, finding no way to sell it, mailed it back. A year later, police caught him. He stole some juice from a supermarket, was fingerprinted, and the prints matched those on the returned Dali.
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TIL Plans were in place to sever all communication w/ Astronauts on the moon if they had been stranded by a technical failure.
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TIL that Mesopotamians figured out that the Earth orbited the sun about 1,700 years before Copernicus and Newton. They also figured out that the moon causes the tides and that the Earth rotates around its axis.
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TIL American pediatrician Saul Krugman deliberately infected thousands of mentally disabled children with Hepatitis B between 1950-1972 to further his research in vaccinology. He was made president of the American Pediatric Society in 1972.