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TIL Early 60s American astronauts had groupies as there were “plenty of pretty women who would give anything to sleep with an astronaut”

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xVEDb TIL That The George Washington memorial statue in London is built on American soil, as Washington once said that he would “never stand on English soil ever again”.
AN7J7 TIL of the proposed Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, whose 100m aperture would have allowed it to see objects 1500x fainter than the Hubble Telescope and analyze extrasolar planets for molecules indicating life. It was cancelled due to the €1.5 billion cost being too high
jNjZp TIL that Sony’s PlayStation was developed to be an add-on CD-ROM unit to the Super Nintendo. Instead, Sony decided to compete against Nintendo after the latter announced a partnership with Philips on the CD drive one day before the SNES-Play Station was supposed to be announced by Sony.
gr9GL TIL in the wake of 9/11, there were more antisemitic hate attacks than anti-Muslim attacks.
NkZb TIL Ireland is the only country in the world that has a lower population today than they did in 1841. Ireland’s population in 1841 was 8.2 million - today it’s population is only 6.4 million. Still showing the long-lasting effects of the Great Famine