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TIL: Cheese is one of the most shoplifted items from supermarkets

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EggAo TIL that a single engineer in the control room of NASA prevented the astronauts of Apollo 12 from aborting the mission seconds after launch. "Set SCE to AUX", said John Aaron which saved the entire mission.
R5aV6 TIL about L-8, a Navy blimp whose crew mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific in 1942, before crashing into a suburb of San Francisco. L-8 was repaired and later became the Goodyear blimp.
kOrM7 TIL when the territory of Wyoming applied to join the US, congress told them they'd have to stop letting women vote. Their response was "We will remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women”. In 1890 they joined as the first and only state to allow women to vote.
b9dGQ TIL That the Library of Congress has a comprehensive digitized, searchable archive of United States Newspapers dating back to 1777. Free to view and download.
0wKDM TIL that in 2016, the NFL acquired an exclusive (and secret) radio frequency from the FCC to prevent coaches from getting their play calls and signals intercepted. Only 10 coaches from each team have access to this frequency during games.