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TIL more people have orbited around the moon (24) than have pitched a perfect game (23)

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rRd91 TIL Walmart used to take out life insurance policies on their employees and keep the payouts when they died, a practice colloquially known as “Dead Peasant Insurance”
E1bpW TIL about Project Retro, an idea proposed by the US Air Force around the 1960's that called for a thousand rocket engines to be strapped to the equator of Earth which would allow the US to slow/stop the rotation of the planet in an effort to "dodge" Soviet ICBMs.
WedA TIL that the Military at one time invented the M65 - The Recoiless Nuclear Rifle. It fired nuclear rockets.
LQQlr TIL Leeches are edible, but you have to take their heads off before eating, because they could anchor onto your throat on their way down.
AdLo TIL that 80% of French bulldog litters require artificial insemination and caesarean section to give birth. This is because many males are incapable of breeding due to slim hips that make them unable to mount the female.