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TIL The Moon's Orbit is WEIRD

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LkLOv TIL Astronaut Tom Jones carried a copy of Arthur C. Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey" into space during a shuttle mission in 2001. The astronauts read the book in their spare time and discussed which of 2001’s technologies had arrived
Z8aJa TIL of the SS Tullibee, US WWII submarine that sunk itself when the torpedo it fired made a full circle and came back around to strike the submarine. There was 1 survivor.
gy68 TIL that Senior Chief Robert O'Neill, the Navy SEAL that killed Bin Laden, also rescued Captain Phillips and Marcus Luttrell, the SEAL from the movie “Lone Survivor”.
LopZ TIL The Susie G. Komen Foundation has only donated 3.6% of the money it’s raised to metastatic breast cancer research.
5Y1ER Today I learned Australia has re-started industrial logging old growth forests in bush fire affected areas