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TIL: During the First Wave of Feminism a Spanish mother raised her child to be the Woman of the Future she spoke 6 languages when eight years old, finished Law School at 17 and then her mother shot her to death.

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RkJ1 TIL Neil Armstrong before leaving for the Apollo 11 Space mission signed hundreds of autographs and had them dropped in the mail on the exact date of their moon mission, in case he died during the mission and his family could monetize his autographs.
gr5XX TIL: That early drafts for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey included a prologue containing interviews with scientists about extraterrestrial life, voice-over narration, a stronger emphasis on the prevailing Cold War balance of terror and a different and more explicitly explained breakdown for HAL.
DP5j TIL: Puppy pregnancy syndrome is a psychosomatic condition where an individual believes, after being bitten by a dog, that puppies are conceived in their abdomen.
nMLb TIL Thad Roberts, a NASA intern, spent 7 years in federal prison after having sex with his girlfriend on a bed full of stolen moon rocks.
E7Dx TIL If one of your grandparents are Irish, you could claim Irish citizenship no matter where you live or born without knowing anything about Ireland.