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TIL after barely surviving the splashdown of the Liberty Bell 7, NASA astronaut Gus Grissom jokingly named the spacecraft for his next mission "Molly Brown" after the Broadway show "The Unsinkable Molly Brown". When NASA asked him to come up with a different name, he offered "Titanic".

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69GBY TIL There are more possible chess game combinations than atoms in the observable universe.
wLbRP TIL the term "Game Over" originated with light-up displays on 1950's pinball machines
GYeg4 TIL two months before President Franklin Pierce’s inauguration, his last surviving child was killed in a train accident. He refused to be sworn in on a bible, believing God was punishing him for his past sins.
Dxp TIL the Russians armed a space station with a 30mm cannon, and test-fired it in space, for ‘self defence’
5VPVn TIL that in 2011, astronomers discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water on Earth, surrounds a huge black hole more than 12 billion light-years away.