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TIL Gateway Will Be Humanity's First Lunar Space Station

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l7Bpa TIL: In 1965, Heinz Holzapfel, his wife Jutta and son, fled the communist east Berlin ziplining from a government building over the Berlin Wall.
6EBLQ TIL of Marco Flores. He was molested by a neighbor from age 8. As a teen, he found a photo of his nephew, 6, in his predator’s home. Wanting to protect his nephew, he killed the predator. Police found child porn & chat logs on his pc about molesting Flores & planning to molest more.
KyJ6 TIL vampire bats not only drink the blood of their prey, but urinate on the prey as they do so.
16vEX TIL Taco Bell started out as a hot dog stand called Bell's Drive-In in 1948.
1arvP TIL on Titan, the atmosphere can hold the equivalent of about 10 meters of liquid before rain forms vs. only a few centimeters on Earth. So Titan's weather is expected to feature torrential downpours causing flash floods, interspersed by decades or centuries of drought.