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TIL Alcatraz was the only federal prison at the time to offer hot-water showers for its inmates because the prison staff felt the inmates would find the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay almost impossible to withstand during an escape attempt.

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9DpG TIL NASA astronauts earn $64,724 a year.
grWRX TIL there are actually three Lunar Roving Vehicles parked on the moon. These were left behind from the final three Apollo missions - 15, 16 and 17 (Aug 1971, Apr 1972 and Dec 1972 respectively). For the last 50 years, I have believed only one LRV was ever taken to the moon.
0lkR TIL that there designs for a rocket even larger than the Saturn V that could boost 1.2 million pounds into orbit. It was so large it had to be launched partially submerged and was call the Sea Dragon.
W7g9d TIL Jessica Alba’s mother is of French-Danish heritage, while her father is from Mexican-Indian and Spanish lineage.
P5mE TIL: Netflix uses the ‘Chaos Monkey’ which intentionally breaks things on their live site so they are forced to build multiple redundancies in their systems