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TIL On APOLLO mission 14, Alan Shepard smuggled in a custom made 6 iron golf club head which attached to a rock collector, and proceeded to hit 2 gold balls on the lunar surface.

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kB1g TIL that “Da Vinci’s Rule of the Trees” (“all branches of a tree … put together are equal in thickness to the trunk.”) appears to be true - but “looking at big trees, there’s thousands of branches, and it takes a lot of undergrads to measure it.”
Wk4M8 TIL proslavery literature was written after the publication of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' like the parody 'Aunt Phillis's Cabin' which states: "slaves are comfortable and contented, and their owners humane and kind"
7Var TIL There is an operating system that fits on a floppy disk, and is still being developed for fun
9YPm6 TIL that coins (originally made from precious metals) have ridges in order to prevent people from shaving down the edges to sell those shavings and use the devalued coins as their original value.
vPaej TIL in 2018, the term “Ass-Clown” was added into Webster’s Dictionary, crediting Mike Judge as the screenwriter behind Office Space for coining it