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TIL: The vast Library of Congress (paper) card catalog is abandoned in place, gathering dust in the basement

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pvKO TIL Apollo 14 commander Alan Shephard once said “If somebody’d said before the flight, ‘Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?’ I would have say, 'No, no way.’ But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.”
rRBdd TIL: All 50 of the Fortune 50 are already using Artificial Intelligence at their Organizations.
ADEPx TIL in 1959 Alfred Hitchcock was approached to direct the first James Bond movie. However, he did not want to make another spy thriller right after "North by Northwest", and instead started working on "Psycho".
gEB4 TIL, the postage stamp of The Statue of Liberty depicts not the real statue in New York, but the replica in Las Vegas
e0jWn TIL That the US has had over 2,000 unique Senators in its history. Only ten of them have been black.