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TIL that President Nixon gave the President of Ireland a flag that traveled to the moon and a piece of moon rock. The moon rock was accidentally dumped and is worth $5 million dollars.

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v1kjr TIL that in 1980, a Somali government prisoner was sentenced to life in solitary confinement. He contemplated suicide until the prisoner in the next cell tapped out the words of a book in modified Morse code.
rR7o4 TIL about Crimson Contagion. A simulation from January to August 2019 that tested the capacity of the U.S. federal government. The exercise involves a scenario in which tourists returning from China spread a respiratory virus in the United States.
oRMGR TIL Gulf Stream Orphans are tropical Caribbean fish carried thousands of miles by ocean currents up the East Coast of the US as far north as New England and the Gulf of Maine. Most succumb to cold winter conditions, but some make it back south again and a minority are rescued by humans
X04eE TIL that during Dean Smith's tenure as head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels, 96.6% of his players received their degrees and he also helped pioneer desegregation by recruiting their first black scholarship player, Charlie Scott.
MeY9A TIL in WWII, weather reports were censored to prevent enemy submarines from learning about conditions. A football game in Chicago was so covered in fog that the radio announcer couldn't see the field, but afterwards he was officially thanked for never using the word "fog" or mentioning the weather.