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TIL the largest moon in our solar system, Ganymede, is larger than the planet of Mercury

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wZr1 TIL after Psycho’s release Hitchcock received an angry letter from the father of a girl who refused to bathe after seeing Diabolique and now refused to shower after seeing Psycho. Hitchcock sent a note back simply saying “Send her to the dry cleaners.”
Vmbm TIL the Soviets were trying to collect rock samples from the Moon with a probe at the exact same time the Appolo 11 mission was taking place in 1969. While Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were walking on the Moon, their probe malfunctioned and crashed into the surface miles away from them.
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