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TIL In 2018, 50 years after his Apollo 8 mission, astronaut Bill Anders ridiculed the idea of sending human missions to Mars, calling it "stupid". His former crewmate Frank Borman shares Ander's view, adding that putting colonies on Mars is "nonsense"

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W7Zb9 TIL medieval England began adopting the A.D. system in the 8th century, influenced by Saint Bede's work on the dating of Easter and his Ecclesiastical History, with wider adoption across Europe after Charlemagne's 9th-century coronation.
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