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TIL: The Mayflower Was Headed for Virginia But Was Blown Off Course

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b9wjZ TIL NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a tradition of passing around a lucky jar of peanuts throughout mission control during critical events. The tradition started with the Ranger 7 Moon-imaging mission in 1964, which was the first successful Ranger mission after six previous failed attempts.
JYxOj TIL Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe lost the bridge of his nose in a duel over a mathematical formula.
LVEZ TIL TV mystery series ‘Columbo’ was so popular in Romania that when the show was cancelled the Romanian gov’t feared riots, so they had the US State Dept. ask Peter Falk to record a video message to the Romanian people, which he did by reading it phonetically into the camera
PYle TIL that there are more tigers kept as pets in Texas than there are in the wild in India.
jNnxa TIL Pangolins are the most traficked mammal in the world. Now in a good news Chinese government has removed pangolin scales from a list of approved ingredients in traditional medicine, which could help in bringing end to the large-scale illegal trade.