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TIL The Apollo 15 mission left behind a small aluminum statuette called Fallen Astronaut, along with a plaque bearing the names of 14 known American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died in the furtherance of space exploration.

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Odme TIL There is an emergency hotline in the US where you can call and listen to Hall and Oates songs
kJ4y4 TIL when Stalin mispronounced a word while giving a speech, all subsequent speakers felt obliged to repeat the mistaken pronunciation in order to avoid the perception that they were correcting him.
M7kW7 TIL about Connie Converse, an American singer-songwriter, active in New York City in the 1950s. Her work is among the earliest known recordings in the singer-songwriter genre of music. In 1974 Converse wrote letters to family, left her home and was never heard from again. Her fate remains unknown.
yQa1a TIL contemporaries of President Abraham Lincoln compared his high-pitched voice to a falsetto.
PxMw TIL that in development for Star Treck TNG, Gene Roddenberry wanted Deanna Troi to have four breasts.