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TIL the Apollo 11 mission was so risky, Nixon had a speech ready in case the astronauts were left to die on the moon.

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xy8w TIL there’s a castle being built using only the techniques and materials used in the Middle Ages. When completed in the 2020s, it should be an authentic recreation of a 13th-century medieval castle.
mLXx TIL During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson threatened CBS News that if it didn’t ‘cleaned up its act,’ after showing US Marines burning villages, the White House would 'go public’ with the reporter’s alleged “communist ties.”
xV4aD TIL that in some regions of Bangladesh, people fish using otters. Humans have used otters to fish for over 1400 years.
4XeR TIL that an orangutan named Fu Manchu repeatedly escaped from his cage at the zoo using a key he had fashioned from a piece of wire. Every time his zookeepers inspected him, he hid the key in his mouth.
Y7Pwr TIL that the band Alice Cooper broke up in 1975. Their singer, who had used the stage name “Alice Cooper,” then changed his legal name to Alice Cooper so that he could launch a solo career under the “Alice Cooper” name without legal complications.