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TIL that three quarters of the Ikea Catalog is CGI

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X051Q TIL Neil Armstrong thought they had a 90 percent chance of getting back to Earth but only a 50-50 chance of making a successful moon landing on the first attempt. There were too many unknowns in descending from lunar orbit down to the surface that hadn't been demonstrated by testing
epW0J TIL There have been multiple attempts to privatize the National Weather Service and charge for weather data that is currently in the public domain
e0kZJ TIL a 34-yr-old French-UK woman named Emma Perrier was catfished by a 53-yr-old UK man who was using a 35-yr-old Turkish model's photos. She tracked down the real model, Adem Guzel, they hit it off via FaceTime; about a year later, he flew to London and they became a couple.
Z80mD TIL It's theorised that our sense of smell may use quantum tunneling to measure the vibrational states of molecules and there is growing evidence to support this theory.
wLV98 TIL that cats can successfully receive blood donations from dogs