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TIL There’s a small sculpture on the moon named “Fallen Astronaut”. Made by Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck and placed by the crew of Apollo 15 in 1971. It is the only sculpture on the moon, yet it remains relatively unknown.

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QNQEk TIL about Edward Brooke, the first black person to be directly elected to the Senate when he was elected in 1966, serving two terms. A liberal Republican, Brooke co-wrote the 1968 Civil Rights Act and was the first Republican Senator to call for Nixon's resignation during Watergate.
epKkg TIL that there is a special punctuation mark called the percontation point that can be used at the end of a sentence to indicate that the question is rhetorical. e.g. "Did you know about this؟"
jNkPn TIL if you would melt the Aletsch glacier in Switzerland, it could supply every single person on the Earth with a litre of water every day for 4.5 years.