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TIL that the original Apollo mission was concerned about losing the astronauts and capsule to quicksand on the Moon

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WkG9Y TIL over 20% of the documented serial killers in the world have come from a 200-mile radius around Seattle, Washington. There has been a total of 277 serial killers in Washington state with an average number of serial killings of 7.44 per 1 million people.
QN4Pe TIL: Jimmy Carter didn’t found Habitat for Humanity, it was Millard and Linda Fuller, who did, but he has worked with them since 1984
gky9 TIL there’s a version of “The Tortoise and the Hare” where everyone dies in a forest fire because the tortoise, having won the race and therefore seen as the fastest, is given the job of warning everyone.
e0YjD TIL: There are locations on planet Mercury where during a day the sun will appear to pause, reverse direction, then continue forward again as it moves across the sky. This happens as the planet’s angular orbital velocity and angular rotational velocity flip as it crosses perihelion
M7DaV TIL Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is when you learn/talk about something and then see it everywhere. Or is it just our iPhones listening to us?!