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TIL that the average age of the NASA engineers who put humans on the Moon was 28 years old. This means many of them were teenagers when Kennedy challenged America to go to the Moon.

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wLrEW TIL That Nietszche’s sister, Elisabeth, heavily redacted her mentally ill brother’s writings to remove the “race swindle,” making them a Nazi propaganda tool.
rNOMe TIL Otters have skin pockets for their favorite rocks
9M0r TIL of a company making an alternative to rat poison for large populations. Instead of killing those that ingest the product, it makes a percentage of them sterile.
4j6b TIL that an Australian man waited 416 days to see what happens after his ipod timer passes 9999 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds
kx0W TIL that during prohibition, the US government ordered poison be added to industrial alcohol to discourage consumption. People continued to drink it, so the government mandated more potent poison and it killed as many as 10,000 people.