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TIL After Neil Armstrong died, his wife Carol cleaned his closet and found a cloth bag filled with souvenirs he brought back from the moon, including a movie camera from inside the lunar module and waist tether. Congress recently passed a law approving astronauts can take unneeded equipment home

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