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TIL when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, they had about 15 seconds of fuel left.

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e6PE TIL the RMS Olympic (sister ship to the titanic) was the only merchant vessel in WW1 to sink an enemy u-boat. It rammed it despite having the speed to steam out of range of the sub.
E1wnd TIL that geysers are quite rare natural phenomena on Earth, and apart from the famous Yellowstone National Park, the United States also once had 2 more significant geyser fields in Nevada that were each destroyed by geothermal electricity companies in the 1960s and 80s.
4X8Oo TIL of the Solway Firth Spaceman, a mysterious figure seen in a 1964 photograph that no one knew the identity of for five decades. The photographer was visited by two men in black not long after, fueling the fire of UFOlogists who believed it to be a conspiracy
b9D0p TIL a gender reveal party caused a fire that burned 47,000 acres.
9YJeD TIL there are Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner rules, such as "No outside force can harm the Coyote", "The Road Runner must stay on the road", and "No dialog ever, except beep-beep"