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TIL that the man on NASA’s CAPCOM that said, “Challenger, go at throttle up” just before it exploded was the pilot on the very next shuttle mission.

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d8yp8 TIL that the song used as a chant after goals in the NHL is called Kernkraft 400, by Zombie Nation.
168W8 TIL that when a painting of the mugshot of killer Myra Hindley was displayed at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1997, Hindley herself wrote from prison to ask for her portrait to be removed, describing it as a sole disregard for the emotional pain experienced by the families of the victims
41mb TIL in 2012, inmates working in a Vermont prison print shop altered the official Vermont Police Crest to include the hidden image of a pig. The altered decals adorned 30 police cruisers for a year before anybody noticed.
oB8pW TIL the Japanese usually leave out most of their history from the early 1900s to WW2 from their high school curriculum.
69gaw TIL construction of the Manchester Ship Canal began in 1887 and took six years and cost £15 million at the time.