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TIL Cremating a single body requires enough fuel to fill two SUV fuel tanks.

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W6PX TIL Ronald McNair (killed on the Challenger) was the second black man in space, had a black belt in karate, and a Ph.D. in physics from MIT. He had a sax with him on the trip and had planned to compose the first sax song in space.
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