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TIL that after the Apollo 11 moonwalk, NASA was concerned about the volatility and possible fire or explosion of lunar dust after the LM was filled with oxygen. Armstrong and Aldwin spread out a sample in the LM before repressurizing and watched to see if it caught fire or smoldered. It did not.

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a8N9Z TIL there's a music piece called "As Slow as Possible" that has a duration of 639 years. It can take years for a single note to be played.
xZBk TIL that Nintendo is so protective of its property that it bought the rights of a super Mario brothers porn parody so that it would not be distributed.
grjL4 TIL the Cutty Sark was a famous ship during the Tea Trade. Launched in 1870, it was designed to win the Tea Races from the Far East. The first ship to bring tea from China could command the highest prices in England. It was named after a witch in a Robert Burns poem and inspired the whisky brand.
e0oRE TIL it's impossible to see your own eyes moving in a mirror due to a phenomenon called saccadic masking where the brain selectively blocks visual processing during rapid eye movements
Wkbao Today I Learned that famous Albinoni Adagio in G minor was not composed by Albinoni. It was not even composed in the Baroque Era. It is a composition by the Italian musicologist Remo Giazotto in middle 20th century