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TIL Jack Black’s mother was an engineer for NASA who worked the problem of getting the Apollo 13 astronauts home while she was in labor.

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lRW5 TIL that Facebook Turned Down WhatsApp Founder Brian Acton for a Job before they bought his app for 19 Billions dollars.
M7gW7 TIL in the 18th century many prominent voices were concerned by an 'epidemic' affecting young people whereby they were spending too much time reading books. It was diagnosed as 'a dangerous disease' called 'reading rage, reading fever, reading mania or reading lust.'
7ryy7 TIL Somali Museum of Minnesota may now be the only museum in the world dedicated to preserving Somali culture and traditions. Boqor Burhaan, a regional king from Puntland, Somalia, held a reception at the Somali Museum as part of a visit to the Somali community in Minnesota
8am4Z TIL Neil Armstrong had to fill out a US customs declaration when he returned from the moon
ZpJQB TIL that a death row inmate named James Edward Smith requested a lump of dirt for his last meal as a part of a voodoo ritual to assist his reincarnation.