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TIL almost every word Neil deGrasse Tyson says in COSMOS was written by Carl Sagan’s wife, Ann Druyan

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OoXaa TIL that a TV news crew were filming on the streets of New York when Flight 11 hit the North Tower, but managed to get only audio of the actual crash.
epv1k TIL that Franklin Delano Roosevelt died before WW2 ended and never saw that the allies won
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