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TIL the last words on the moon were “..we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return: with peace and hope for all mankind.”

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k081 TIL That on this day in 1963 the US Military created an artificial ring around the earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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