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TIL Five mice, Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey, traveled aboard Apollo 17 Command Module "America" with astronaut Ronald Evans and still hold the record for the most orbits of the Moon (75)

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780Rx TIL of the “Squeeze”, which was a type of accident in the early days of diving causing a catastrophic loss of pressure in the diving suit of the diver. The immense pressure would suck the skin and organs up into the heavy copper diving helmet, leaving the bones and straps of flesh in the diving suit
a8O0 TIL A tribe in New Guinea met a White man for the first time in 1976 and it was filmed. They have never seen modern civilization, or any modern technology
oBon7 TIL In some cities, if you owe too many parking tickets, you'll get your windshield blocked by a device named the barnacle until you pay all outstanding tickets and they'll send you a code to remove the barnacle. It's possible in the 2020s, your city will adopt this and phase out wheel boots.
bmXp TIL Abraham Lincoln used to tell a long joke about a man carving a turkey at a fancy party who puts so much force into the effort that he rips a huge fart in front of everyone
YpD6r TIL Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop sold "bio-frequency stickers" made of the "carbon material NASA uses to line space suits" they claimed would "rebalance the energy frequency in our bodies." When alerted to the product, NASA said their spacesuits weren’t even lined with carbon material.