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TIL that the moon smells like "wet ashes" (Neil Armstrong) or "Spent gunpowder." (Buzz Aldrin).

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4X0n5 TIL: Madalyn Murray O'Hair, and ardent atheist, who got prayer kicked out of American schools, was kidnapped along with her son and granddaughter and dismembered, not by religious fanatic, but by a fellow atheist, he also robbed $600,000 from the victims.
dDm8B TIL the last elementary particle that we know to exist was discovered in 2012 at the CERN in Switzerland, using the Large Hadron Collider. It's called the Higgs boson and it's the particle responsible for "assigning" a mass to other elementary particles.
1a1lW TIL China has 7 coffee shops that are a blatant ripoffs of Starbucks, competing with actual Starbucks without any legal consequences.
jP5M TIL Jesus encouraged people not to pray out loud, and to practice their religion in private.
KYLpB TIL in 2024, scientists developed a biodegradable electronic device that can be implanted in the body to deliver therapies directly to affected areas.