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TIL Astronauts of Apollo 16 and 17 reported Moon dust to be "soft like snow, yet strangely abrasive, with a taste and smell of gunpowder."

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LkQ9P TIL that in 2006 Michael Vick started a charity for at-risk youth. The charity spent $20,000 of its budget on programs for kids, paid $97,000 to a friend of Vick's who acted as the foundation's "fundraiser" and gave the remaining $50,000 in its bank account to Vick's financial adviser.
RmD8 TIL: Joseph Stalin in 1944 encouraged Polish resistance fighters in Warsaw to rebel against their German occupiers, then ordered his nearby army units not to help. The resulting German victory annihilated any who could feasibly challenge Stalin’s rule once the Soviets liberated Warsaw in 1945.
xaNB TIL that the government is putting the new Department of Homeland Security headquarters on a campus that had originally been established by Congress as the Government Hospital for the Insane.
6QkJ TIL that humans got crabs from gorillas.
5YMMp TIL ultraviolet light on blood was used to treat infections before antibiotics were common.