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Today I learned that approximately two thirds of the moon rocks given as gifts by the Nixon administration are unaccounted for.

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4WGa TIL: The computer that calculated flight trajectories for first American in space (and many others) was actually a black woman at NASA (at a time of intense racial/gender bias).
Lk9MP TIL about a man who shot a protected saguaro cactus down with his shotgun in 1982. The cactus fell on him, crushing and impaling him to death.
pY9KN TIL John C Woods, the executioner for the Nuremberg trials intentionally botched several of the executions to make them suffer. Also lied about being a hangman in Texas and Oklahoma to get the job.
gMMWD TIL that 46% of the world’s population depend upon rivers originating in Tibet.
69YgY TIL that Iceland had a law that allowed killing every Basque person on sight until 2015.