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TIL Gateway Will Be Humanity's First Lunar Space Station

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8eQKG TIL An archaeologist spent ten days at Canada's Fort Conger historic site at the northern tip of Ellesmere Island to scan it with a laser to make a 3D model of it. Conger was where Peary employed Inughuit people from Greenland to help him reach the pole
X0GmE TIL the world record for the longest marathon theatre performance by an individual is 110 hours 46 minutes & was achieved by Adrian Hilton when he recited the complete works of William Shakespeare at a Shakespeare Festival in London in 1987.
e0NBJ TIL: that the oil company Shell was started by a man called Samuel Samuel
lvxB TIL a Buddhist monk left a note with instructions on how his body should be handled after death, once his body was exhumed in 2002 after 80 years it was in perfect condition.
WwLN TIL that during a Roman Triumph, which were rare, spectacular parades commemorating the honor awarded to a victorious Roman general by the Senate, a slave would have to accompany the honored while whispering “Remember: you will die” into their ear so that they may not let the honor go to their head.