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TIL James Irwin, the 8th person to walk on the moon, quit NASA to begin expeditions in search of Noah's Ark.

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rRvK0 TIL about Victor Vescovo, the first person to travel to the deepest points in every ocean on Earth. All of his dives used the Deep Sea Vehicle Limiting Factor, which he funded. Vescovo has also skied to both poles and climbed the highest mountains on every continent.
wLa6M TIL The half-life of an isotope of Tellerium is 160 Trillion times greater than the Universe's Age (Aprox. 13.8 billion) . The very-long-lived radioisotope Tellerium-128 thus has the longest known half-life among all the Radionuclides of around 2,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years!
5BVD TIL the special sunglasses John Lennon and Ozzy Osbourne wore are called “teashades”
1aZE8 TIL that in an attempt to enforce Prohibition, the Prohibition Bureau began adding poison to industrial alcohol to prevent its consumption, killing between 10,000 and 50,000 people. This was supported by people like Wayne Wheeler, who argued that the victims had committed suicide by breaking the law
JYoe8 TIL in the Mongol army if one soldier ran from danger in battle he would be killed along with the nine comrades in his unit