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TIL metal musicians recorded a charity single in 1985 named Stars

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BgLyr TIL a high school student wrote a text-based moon landing simulation in 1969 using a PDP-8 minicomputer. It was "a question and answer game" - at each stage of the landing you'd find out your current velocity and then you had to enter how much fuel to use. If you burned fuel too early, you'd crash.
VvZG TIL that baby tiger sharks fight each other in the womb, with the largest embryo eating all but one of its siblings.
4kxra TIL in August 1939, some German generals planned to ask high-ranking military officials to give troops to Hjalmar Schacht to prevent a war with Poland, as the Reich Cabinet had the power to debate on declarations of war, which Hitler had not done
EgOjp TIL Sharks are older than trees
OoWB6 TIL that Denmark was the first nation to pay worker compensation to women, nurses and air hostesses, who had developed breast cancer after years of night-shift work in government sponsored jobs.