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TIL Apollo 15’s crew left a plaque on the Moon commemorating both American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts who had died for space exploration

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Yp4Dr TIL that the Weights & Measures Services in Virginia is responsible for the inspection and testing of all commercially used weighing and measuring equipment including gasoline dispensers, grocery scales, scanners, vehicle scales, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) meters and vehicle tank meters.
D1LKD TIL: The King James Version of the Bible is still under copyright in the United Kingdom and the right to publish it is restricted. The copyright is held by the crown.
9YbMp TIL that in 1938, a physicist proposed an exact number for the total number of protons in the observable universe.
E1MM7 TIL that Pangaea wasn't the "first" continent where everything formed in one place, and that many super continents existed before it due to cyclical plate tectonic activity
G6g5 TIL of a Norwegian man who bought $27 worth of Bitcoin in 2009 and forgot about them for four years when they were worth just under $1 million.