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TIL: The actual phrase is "Houston, we've had a problem"

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YpX5r TIL: Of the NFL players given the Wonderlic Test (a test given before entering the NFL Draft to measure intelligence) at least 19 in the last 37 years have scored below 10, meaning they are illiterate. 10 of those 19 graduated from a major university.
nM87 TIL before alarm clocks, people were employed as “knocker uppers” to go around and knock on doors to wake people up.
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