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TIL about the NASA Moon Trees, trees that have been to space.

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69mQX TIL that despite the common myth that the F-14 had the world's first airborne digital microprocessor, it may have been General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark., starting with the FB-111, then later the F-111D. Therefore beating the F-14 by several years.
YpPDv TIL That the South Park episode 'Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery' served as the world premiere of their song 'Falling Away From Me' which went on to become one of the band's most popular songs ever.
AQ8a TIL that Robert F Kennedy Jr is an Anti Vaccine Crusader/wingnut
ANYxB TIL each element on the Periodic Table corresponds to one solution of the main equation in the field of quantum mechanics & that the entire field of chemistry emerged from that single equation.
VBlRk TIL of Francis Bowes Sayre Jr., grandson of U.S. president Woodrow Wilson. Unlike his grandfather, who authorized and imposed widespread federal segregation, Francis was a fierce opponent of segregation, going so far as to march alongisde Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery.