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TIL The U.S.Military has a designated unit to rescue astronauts.

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9o1m TIL an entire town won a $950-Million lottery jackpot except for one man
LkWeP TIL of a Jewish ballerina, Franceska Mann, who while stripping to go into the gas chambers, shot a German officer and wounded another.
LDPQ TIL that in Jewish folklore, Adam had a wife named Lilith before Eve was created.
7rnjb TIL Weezer's second album "Pinkerton" was panned by critics upon its release in 1996. "Rolling Stone" readers voted it the third worst album of '96. However, "Pinkerton" developed a cult following and increasing praise. By 2002 "Rolling Stone" readers voted it the 16th greatest album of all time.
yXJM TIL that Conan O'Brien has majored in history and literature, graduated with a magna cum laude from Harvard University, and wrote his senior thesis on the use of children as symbols in the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor