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TIL that after returning from the Moon in 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts were quarantined in a Mobile Quarantine Facility for 21 days to prevent any potential contamination from unknown lunar pathogens.

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y7w8 TIL in 1961 the US Air Force accidentally dropped two nuclear bombs on North Carolina, each more than 250 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb, but nether exploded. One of them remains buried in the ground where it landed.
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