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TIL the crews of Apollo 11, 12, and 14 had to spend 3 weeks in quarantine after returning to Earth because of the possibility that they might spread contagions from the moon

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GNQJ TIL: Bill Gates is giving away all his money and leaving only 10m each to his 3 children so “they can make their own way.”
5Yy99 TIL about the Tanuki, a Japanese folklore creature that is referred to as the Raccoon Dog. Its most distinguishing characteristic is their large, magical pair of testicles that it used as a hat, umbrella, boat or drum. They are known as tricksters or bringers of good luck.
9wbBM TIL that in the US, invasive honeysuckle leaves are toxic to amphibians. This can be severely harmful to them if spent leaves fall into bodies of water where they live.
bKyZ TIL that the generation born between 1925 and 1945 is called the “silent generation” because “ many focused on their careers rather than on activism, and people in it were largely encouraged to conform with social norms.”
epdE6 TIL The world's first Tokamak fusion reactor will start producing deuterium and tritium plasmas in the 2030s, and just the initial experimental trials will consume the totality of the world's tritium supply, most of which comes from Canada, or Canadian-designed CANDU reactors abroad.