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wLKvM TIL that while Neil Armstrong was walking on the moon the Soviet Union had an unmanned spacecraft in lunar orbit on a mission to obtain soil samples. It crashed on the moon the day Apollo 11 left.
kO9lW TIL that it's possible to buy random, assorted books "by the foot", for the sake of filling up and decorating otherwise empty bookshelves and libraries, a service typically used by filmmakers and decorators, but also rich people on occasion.
Bg84W TIL The 2011 Smithville, MS EF-5 tornado, one of the strongest ever recorded, threw a semi-truck 300 yds, embedded an rv into the ground 250 yards away, and threw an SUV into the top of a water tower half a mile away before it landed crushed into a ball another quarter mile away.
Wk68d TIL that Osama Bin Laden had a Steam account, Batman Gotham Knight and FF7 among many other such items
BrdWL TIL that humans have a negativity bias that makes us continuously look for bad news. The trait stems from early humans who developed it as a survival mechanism