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TIL The two spacesuits for the tentative 2024 moon landing will cost over $1 Billion to develop, as NASA considers them to be complete, one-person space vehicles equipped with the latest tech and life-support systems.

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N7wRM TIL that on the night of September 10th, 2001, an artist by the name Monika Bravo filmed 7 hours of footage of a thunderstorm from the 91st floor of the WTC North Tower. She took the raw footage home with her that night. The next morning, both towers collapsed. The video she edited is found here:
PlGe TIL the exact cause of death and burial site of Ganghis Khan is unknown because ALL of the 2000 funeral guests were killed in order to preserve this secret.
YWMP TIL Standard and Poors, the rating company (and among others) that helped create the financial meltdown of 2008 was “paid a fortune by Wall Street to hand out pristine AAA ratings to the subprime mortgage-backed securities”
gM1yW TIL That SleepNumber beds and mattresses contain microphones and record audio that its users agree to in purchasing the bed and creating a profile. It is in the privacy policy.
Z8nyo TIL of the Tricuspid Valve Annuloplasty Ring which prevents children with faulty organs or heart problems from needing more than one surgery as they get older.