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TIL the Saturn V rocket, which first took humans to the Moon, weighed just under three million kilogrammes before launch, or roughly the weight of 400 elephants. More than 90% of this weight was fuel alone, leaving a payload of just 43,000 kilogrammes to reach the Moon's orbit.

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loPN1 TIL that people who believe they suffer from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) have relocated to a 13,000 square mile US Radio Quiet Zone where wireless is banned to prevent interference with radio telescopes.
nXlW TIL not only is Judge Judy the highest paid TV star in the world, but she makes around 20 million more then Jon Stewart! (48 million compared to 25-30)
WMKX TIL Marvel Comics created a superhero, Blue Ear, just for a 4 year old boy who was uncomfortable wearing hearing aids, which he needed. The boy told his mom “Superheroes don’t wear hearing aids” so Marvel created one.
dL1K TIL the Kiwi bird lays an egg that can weigh up to a quarter of its body mass. Proportionally, that’s like a chicken laying a one-pound egg or a human giving birth to a four year old.
NXE5E TIL that the Freedom Bell is a 2:1 scale replica of the Liberty Bell that was cast in The Netherlands. It was a bicentennial gift from the American Legion to the nation’s youth and sat in storage for several years before being installed at Union Station in 1981.