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TIL Buzz Aldrin brougth Wine and Bread on board Apollo 11 to take Communion ON THE MOON

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J1d4l TIL Denmark fitted contraceptive coils in half the female population of Greenland (without informing them of what their purpose was or receiving consent) to reduce birth rates in the 60s and 70s. Most of those affected were children.
KOZpE TIL that like us, the Romans divided the day into 24 hours. However, there were always 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness, so the actual length of the hours varied with the season
e8p4 TIL at the 1912 Olympics, a marathon runner quit and went home to Japan without telling officials and was considered a missing person in Sweden for 50 years. In 1966, he was invited to complete the marathon. His time: 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds.
GOa5 TIL of Frank Nelson Cole. At a 1903 meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Cole—while remaining completely silent—showed on a chalkboard an important new proof by, among other things, calculating 193,707,721 × 761,838,257,287 by hand. He sat down after an hour to a standing ovation.
kOBJ4 TIL that 4 divers literally exploded when a member of the boat crew accidentally opened the outer hatch of their decompression chamber. The men went from 305ft. down to sea level instantaneously.