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TIL There are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written

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9Rx6 TIL NASA accidentally auctioned off for just $995 a bag that was used by Apollo 11 astronauts to collect the first lunar sample. When the buyer sent the bag to NASA for verification, the space agency realized its mistake and refused to return it.
kmv7 TIL: The reason people in Florida are always in the news is because their Police records are public.
xVAo0 TIL US has actually HSR running at max speed 240kmph, though its average speed is only 135kmph
oBdxE TIL chimpanzees in Uganda are killing infants and attacking people because of havitat loss and them.moving into areas closer to humanity.
69pkZ TIL after the Titanic sank, the first ship sent to recover the dead bodies ran out of embalming supplies, so they decided to preserve only the bodies of first-class passengers by the need to visually identify wealthy men to resolve any disputes over large estates.