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TIL of a prisoner program called Volunteers of Vacaville where inmates record books to tape, repair Braille machines, and do Braille transcription for the blind community

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rREWw TIL that Buzz Aldrin's first words on the moon were "Beautiful view. Magnificent desolation."
LQLyv TIL about the Dover Sun House, a 1940s-era house heated by molten salt
Zp8ga TIL about “The deadly accordion wars of Lesotho” where you can be murdered for playing music. “After one Famo musician allegedly shot another in 2004, a cycle of revenge developed, fuelled by poisonous lyrics in songs.” This has now led to Lesotho having the sixth-highest homicide rate in the world.
j6G5E TIL the longest range gunnery hit in naval combat is 26,000 yards, shared between HMS Warspite against Giulio Cesare in July 1940 and Scharnhorst against HMS Glorious a month before.
VDZZ TIL of Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine, two rival criminal underworld bosses in Sydney in the 1930s, who resorted to using newspaper headlines as weapons in their feud