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TIL that 650 soldiers created a beautiful tribute to thank WWI War Horses and Donkeys. About eight million horses, and countless mules, and donkeys were lost in the war. The photo was taken by the officers in the Auxiliary Remount Dept. No.326 in Camp Cody, New Mexico in 1915.

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rN6lx TIL during Apollo 11 NASA suspected that the pressure from the exhaust of the LM engine being reflected by the lunar surface might make it explode, and Neil Armstrong was meant to shut it down as soon as the contact light went off, but he forgot.
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