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TIL that over a thousand pages of information was made possible by this woman & many others that allowed N.A.S.A. get to the moon.

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ANPKn TIL that two time Nobel prize winner Marie Curie was buried in a lead lined coffin, all of her belongings are stored in lead lined boxes and will be radioactive for 1500 years.
d8GmQ TIL the oldest company in Ireland is 533 years old. It manufactures candles.
M7X9V TIL in 1964 AT&T debuted “Picturephone” for face to face calls. It projected 100k+ subscribers by 1975, but only ever had a few hundred. The service cost $160/mo at 25¢/min (or about $1,300/mo at $2/min adjusted for inflation in 2022)
b9bp4 TIL about Matt Frewer. He is the voice of Max Headroom, Panic for Disney's Hercules, Moloch from Watchmen, Pestilence from Supernatural, Jackal from Gargoyles, and so, so many others.
LmEm TIL the Amazon river dumps so much fresh water into the Atlantic that it is possible to drink from the surface for about 200 mile offshore