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TIL that the first astronaut to be yelled at by NASA was John Young, one of the most accomplished astronauts in history, after he smuggled a corned-beef sandwich on Gemini 3.

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nWXYY TIL a family in the US found their son - conceived via IVF - was not theirs after taking an at-home ancestry test. The mistake was concluded to be human error and the boy now sees both families
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dD6OB TIL that despite the notoriety of the Three Mile Island accident, wherein the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station suffered a partial meltdown, it resulted in no deaths and epidemiology studies on the region concluded that “the accident had no observable long-term health effects.”