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TIL-that “astronaut ice cream” that you see at every science museum store only ever went up with Apollo 8 and the crew denied ever eating it.

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Lko9v TIL that most of the letters in the alphabet can be silent. Honestly I kinda thought it was only like K, T, B, H. Its weird how you don't really think about it. wack
9YlQ7 TIL Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, has volcanic eruptions so powerful that they can be seen with large telescopes on Earth
XVbR TIL Meredith Gardner, a codebreaker was able to work out that more than 200 American citizens were Soviet agents between 1930 and 1945. One of the spies was William Weisband, who was one of Gardner colleagues on the project, and had told the Soviets as soon as the code was broken.
9XJB TIL that both of Weird Al’s parents died on the same day due to carbon monoxide poisoning. Hours later he performed at a concert, saying that “since my music had helped many of my fans through tough times, maybe it would work for me as well”.
yVgw8 TIL about the book "Futility" (1898) revised as "The Wreck of the Titan" (1912) featuring an American ocean liner named Titan that sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg. 14 years later the same thing would happen to RMS Titanic.