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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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LmxP TIL that NBA Jam game designer Mark Turmell, a Detroit Pistons fan, hated the Chicago Bulls so much that 1993 NBA Jam game was actually rigged against the Chicago Bulls so that the Bulls would miss “clutch shots” and their stats would lower when playing the Pistons
dDvmQ TIL that in 1885 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers used 300,000 pounds of explosives to annihilate Flood Rock island in New York City's East River as part of clearing Hell Gate for safer navigation. It's been described as "the largest planned explosion before testing began for the atomic bomb".
1Bk8 TIL In 1909, the Criminal Code was amended to criminalize the abduction of women. Before this, the abduction of any woman over 16 was legal, except if she was an heiress. The maximum penalty for stealing a cow was much higher than for kidnapping an heiress.
8e91X TIL about Tulare Lake, once the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi for thousands of years (3.5x larger than Lake Tahoe), resided in California's Central Valley before it all but completely disappeared in the late 19th Century primarily due to agriculture.
VM9QB TIL Rust does not cause tetanus, it is just discarded metal tend to be left at places which also happens to have the bacteria that causes the disease.