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TIL President Nixon had this 'MOON DISASTER' speech ready in case Apollo 11 astronauts died

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rE5W TIL that the BMI(body mass index) the most widely used measurement for body weight, is wrong, and even the creator says it cannot be used to measure the fat of an individual.
WklX TIL Aquafina and Dasani are nothing more than tap water.
NXgnE TIL that the Giants and Dodgers used to be based in New York and Brooklyn respectively. For different reasons they both coincidentally moved to the West Coast around the same time, continuing their same-state rivalry
RYA1 TIL that the safety system for the Chicago Pile, the first nuclear reactor, consisted of a man with an ax and a man with a bucket. In the case of a runaway reaction, one would cut a hemp rope attached to a control rod, and the other would throw a bucket of concentrated cadmium nitride over the pile
M7xmK TIL about Tommy Manville, the heir to the Johns-Manville fortune. The terms of his family trust granted him $250,000 "when he married." As a result he got married 13 times, giving the women a cut of the proceeds before quickly divorcing them.