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TIL Astronaut Jim Irwin, who walked on the moon, was a creationist Christian who later led expeditions to Turkey to find Noah’s Ark

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6Wnm TIL that a sailor divided by zero and caused the USS Yorktown’s (CG-48) network system to fail, leaving it dead in the water.
E1eKx TIL that brown recluse spiders are pretty badly misunderstood and are nowhere near as dangerous and terrifying as everyone thinks they are.
5Qnn TIL in 2005 a man landed a helicopter on the summit of Mount Everest. Two days later he did it again, proving he didn’t just get lucky the first time.
XEp0P TIL Until 2017, toilets on trains in the UK flushed onto the tracks below
nerjG TIL that John P. O'Neill, counter terror expert and head of FBI National Security Division who spent many years investigating Al Qaeda, retired in early August 2001 and started his new job later that same month - as Head of Security at the World Trade Center. He died there on September 11.