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TIL Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was allergic to moon dust.

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rNKx0 TIL the bird population has dropped 30% since 1970
XmYr TIL there is a Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with gold called Kintsugi or Kintsukuroi. The style embraces the flaws and imperfections of the artifact as well as highlights them.
OorAR TIL that several European nobles thought that their bodies were made of glass. This is called the Glass Delusion.
NXQWe TIL casting away a ship carries the death sentence penalty
dYZ8 TIL that during WW2 a “Bat Bomb” was created. As the bomb descended the bats would warm up and awaken from hibernation. At 1,000 ft. altitude, the bomb would open and 1000+ bats, each carrying a tiny time-delayed napalm incendiary device would emerge.