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TIL By launch day, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins accumulated 400 hours in a command-module simulator, running emergency scenarios and rehearsing every step of the journey

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ANJ74 TIL Saul Goodman's alias is a play on the phrase "It's all good, man".
J1v7m TIL on Nov. 6th, 2000. The DEA made the largest LSD manufacturing bust in history. The shutdown of the lab network, halted an estimated 95% of the worldwide supply.
KRvw TIL that the rate of STDs among seniors have risen dramatically.
yVnYp TIL there are only 16 trademarked scents in the US, including Crayola crayons, Playdoh, an ocean-scented indoor playground, and a type of gun cleaner that smells of ammonium and kerosene.
b5Z9 TIL In response to artist Anish Kapoor buying the exclusive rights to Vantablack pigment, said to be the blackest shade of black, artist Stuart Semple created “the world’s pinkest pink”, and made it available to anyone except Kapoor; things then got messy.