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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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OGjER TIL that the left breast gets cancer more often than the right one.
dDYW8 TIL three candidates running for mayor in a Romanian town had the same name. None of them were related.
bakE TIL the average member of the U.S. Congress makes $174,000 per year and its been that way since 2009
WbKN TIL the tongue map that shows parts of the tongue responsible for different aspects of taste is the result of a mistranslation from a German paper and is not true
pYvPO TIL that nine-banded armadillos always give birth to identical quadruplets.