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TIL coastal water in the Seattle region is caffeinated

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bA7p TIL in 1963, San Francisco Giants Manager Alvin Dark joked, “they’ll put a man on the moon before [Giants pitcher] Gaylord Perry hits a home run.” On July 20, 1969, less than an hour after Neil Armstrong’s historic moon walk, Perry smacked his first career homer.
epwDb TIL humans have left over 187,400 kilograms (413,100 lb) of material on the Moon.
NBBQ TIL nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu exposed details of Israel’s nuclear capabilities to British press in 1986. Mossad agents abducted Vanunu from Rome and he was secretly taken to Israel and sentenced to 18 years on charges of treason and espionage following a secret trial.
e07j4 TIL that the Walt Disney Company has never released a film that has won the Academy Award for Best Picture in all of it's 95 year history.
nemKB TIL divers always enter the water backwards to break the water surface with the oxygen-tanks first, causing less of a painful impact, plus to protect the more fragile instruments they carry on their front.