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TIL that in 2006 NASA admitted that they no longer had the original video tapes of the moon landing because they recorded over them.

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R7VkQ TIL- Dr Heimlich at aged 96 saved choking woman with manoeuvre he invented at his retirement home. It was the first time he had ever had to use his maneovre in an emergency.
Y7DJP Today I learned the United States government agencies and Lloyd Jowers were found responsible for killing Dr. Martin Luther King Junior and frame James Earl Ray.
nenB9 TIL that, after their bomber crashed in Japan in 1945, eight American Airmen were taken to Kyushu University Medical School and dissected alive.
D1vNr TIL, mongooses found in Hawai’i are native to India and were originally introduced to Hawai’i Island in 1883 by the sugar industry to control rats in sugarcane fields and have since caused the extinction of 8 federally listed endangered Hawaiian birds.
E1XO0 TIL the Titanic did not have insufficient lifeboats because it was "unsinkable". Regulations at the time only required a small amount because they thought there would be enough time to ferry passengers back and forth to waiting rescue ships.