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TIL in 1971 David Scott smuggled a 'Fallen Astronaut' sculpture onto the Apollo 15 lunar mission and placed it on the Moon's surface to "commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration."

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KE84 TIL: After 4 drunk/stoned punks harrased the siberian tiger at the San Francisco zoo, the tiger escaped, hunted them down, killed one and injuried 2 others
yVvMw TIL that The "Immortal" Jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) resets when damaged and transforms back into a polyp
yQAKl TIL comedian Redd Foxx signature comedy bit involved faking a heart attack. So when he had a real heart attack on the set of his TV show, his castmates thought he was trying to be funny.
GPAQ TIL Robert H Richards IV, the wealthy heir to the Du Pont fortune, was convicted of raping his toddler daughter but was never imprisoned as he would “not fare well” in jail
epZl5 TIL that Nauru, the third smallest country in the world (8sq miles) had a 10 year civil war in 1878 that saw the island's population fall from ~1500 to >1000, sparked by the introduction of firearms. It eventually ended when the German Empire intervened and confiscated >700 rifles.