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TIL the Soviets were trying to collect rock samples from the Moon with a probe at the exact same time the Appolo 11 mission was taking place in 1969. While Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were walking on the Moon, their probe malfunctioned and crashed into the surface miles away from them.

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4kva TIL 18 year old Aaron Deveau of Haverhill, MA was found guilty for motor vehicle homicide by texting, June 2012. Possibly the first in the United States. Sentenced 2 years in prison and loss of his license for 15 years.
oRJeY TIL for every grain of sand on Earth there are 10,000 stars in the known universe, but the total number of stars in the known universe equals the number of molecules in just ten drops of water.
n1lY TIL the last surviving Civil War veteran lived long enough to have seen television.
ADkVo TIL 1998, the largest chemical company in the world (Syngenta) determined that their weedkiller Atrazine interfered with hormones; after exposure to atrazine, frogs that were genetic males became completely functioning reproductive females.
jmvp TIL Japanese police will get huge futons and roll up a person who is being violent or drunk into a little burrito and carry them back to the station to calm them down