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TIL our current model of physics only works for 4% of the matter/energy in the universe

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j64eR TIL Neil Armstrong received hundreds of thousands of cards and letters from all over the world after his historic moon landing. James Hansen selected 400 letters out of 75,000 for publication in a book and donated 55 hours of one-on-one tape-recorded interviews with Armstrong to Purdue’s Archives
WdWY TIL all polar bears alive today can trace their ancestry to a single brown bear that lived in Ireland during the last Ice Age.
jN1mj TIL the US Senate used the same gavel for 165 years until Richard Nixon cracked it
KYdd6 TIL Margaret of Provence, queen consort of France, was the only woman to ever lead a crusade, when her husband was captured and she was in charge of his army and the negotiations to rescue him.
Rm4w TIL for the film “Psycho” Alfred Hitchcock insisted theatre managers to put “no late admission” policy so that audience either see the film from the very beginning, or they don’t see it all.