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TIL After his Apollo moon landing, Charlie Duke experienced marriage troubles. Duke and his wife underwent a religious conversion, leading to their creationist belief that everything in the universe was created by a God

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nWejB TIL in school I read about Nellie Bly, a female journalist in the late 1800s who got herself committed to an insane asylum to report on the conditions. She also once jumped off a ferry so she could report on the efficiency of the rescue crew!
5Vg1Q TIL criminally negligent homicide is a less serious offense than murder or manslaughter and is defined as an act of criminal negligence resulting in the death of another person
x6Erw TIL When a total solar eclipse occurs in a cloudy region, clouds suppress light levels so much that you won’t notice any changes in light levels until about 30 seconds before Totality. Like a fast forward sunset, it becomes dark. Light then returns to normal after Totality in only a few seconds
9lxQ TIL there are still 7 U.S. states banning atheists from holding public office
16wnV TIL That during WW2, President of China Chiang Kai-Shek had to be kidnapped by two of his generals to a negotiating table with the Chinese Communist Party rebels to negotiate a ceasefire that would let him make preparations for the Second Sino-Japanese War.