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VJA4 TIL Pakistan, Iran, and 12 other Muslim countries support the teaching of evolution, including human evolution.
5YMjR TIL Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell took home a 16 mm camera from the Lunar Module that would have otherwise been destroyed. Mitchell tried to auction the camera to help medical treatments for his son who had cancer before he agreed to relinquish the camera by donating it to the Smithsonian
x6PZ1 TIL that Central Park has street numbers on every lamppost, which helps you not to get lost!
OyPg TIL Before the Queen leaves Buckingham Palace to deliver her speech at the Opening of Parliament, a member of the House of Commons is ceremonially held hostage at the palace. This was started to ensure the safe return of the monarch from a possibly hostile Parliament.
4X6Lb Around 74,000 years ago, the Toba supervolcano erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It was the biggest volcanic eruption of the last 2 million years, unleashing 2,800 cubic kilometres of magma. That’s enough to bury the entire United States in a foot-thick layer of ash & rock.