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TIL the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC was opened by a signal relayed through the Viking I Mars Lander to a remote pair of scissors to cut the ribbon.

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DeyV TIL: If you search Google maps for Yucca Flat Airport and zoom out, you can see dozens of nuclear bomb craters from underground testing
nbo9 TIL of Harold Hering, a nuclear missile crewman who was kicked out of the military for asking “How can I know that an order to launch my missiles came from a sane president?”
6Q8Q TIL on a banned episode of Sesame Street Oscar the Grouch fell in love with the Wicked Witch of the West
wLxKW TIL that Beethoven was deaf, and that he eventually had to use a pencil to feel the vibrations of the piano. During one of his symphony’s he had to be turned around to see the audience applaud since he couldn’t hear them.
KYGxR TIL Ernest Hemmingway's great-granddaughter, Cristen Hemmingway Jaynes, is also a fiction writer and a non-fiction writer on environmental issues.