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TIL that in a 1973 new conference in Poland, US President Jimmy Carter’s words were mistranslated to, “I desire the Poles carnally”, creeping out an entire nation.

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Xl6k TIL that bear hair has been found in the scats of “El Jefe”, the only wild jaguar in the United States.
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.
7Eeb TIL that J002E3, originally thought to be an asteroid orbiting the Earth, is actually part of the Apollo 12 mission that returned to Earth orbit after 31 years of orbiting the Sun
PgvV TIL in 1953, a US Scientist named Frank Olsen was administered LSD without his knowledge as part of the MKULTRA program. A week later, Olsen ended up dead. The CIA claimed Olsen jumped from a hotel window, but later paid the family $750K and a 2nd autopsy revealed he was likely assassinated.
BgJxe TIL that captured slaves used to be housed in castles on west coast of Africa before being loaded in ships bound for Europe/North America