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TIL that NASA engineers had issues with the honey comb insulation of the Saturn V rocket, so they ended up hiring local surfers, who had experience in working with the material, to apply it to the rocket.

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AD9Qd TIL sleep deprivation beyond 24 hours causes visual, auditory and sensory hallucinations, progressing to psychosis
QJyKk TIL That refried beans are only fried once.
BgpVb TIL After the massive success of their original 1969 cartoon, “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!” Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. went down a rabbit hole and spent the next decade or so ripping off their own ‘Scooby formula’ to produce a TON of hysterically weird Scooby-doo clones.
Qpke TIL That president Richard Nixon pardoned a lieutenant, who gathered 70-80 Vietnamese civilians into a ditch and murdered them during the My Lai massacre, from his sentence of house arrest.
4X0lR TIL of the Westall UFO encounter, which occurred on 6 April 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, where more than 200 students and teachers saw a UFO in broad daylight.