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TIL when Apollo 11 landed, it had only about 25 seconds of fuel left.

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e0RdL TIL despite growing, Yokohama managed to reduce it's waste by 42%, sparing two incineration plants and 230.000 tons of CO2 per year
W7j7L TIL Mustard gas, one of the most deadliest chemical weapons deployed in warfare, was noted to cause a surprisingly low number of immune cells when medical records of soldiers were reviewed. This revolutionized cancer treatments and mustard gas is now used today to treat some leukemia/lymphomas
6gaX TIL that it’s illegal for kids 16 and under in South Korea to play video games past midnight
QNgge TIL the Incas had a data storage/sharing device called "quipus" [kee-poos] in which cords of different colors and sizes were used to pass information down through generations by tying knots in them at different intervals. Unfortunately the ability to translate the data has been lost.
DkAj Today I learned that the title for Egyptian proctologists literally translates to “shepherd of the anus.”