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TIL Arizonan bestiality law makes special exceptions for industrial breeding practices

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x6AKb TIL that Napoleon's parents fought against the French conquest of Corsica. Napoleon was born three months after the conquest was successful, thus a French citizen and eventually its emperor.
Obna TIL Margaret Hamilton was the lead software engineer for Project Apollo. (Apollo 11 was able to land at all only because she designed the software robustly enough to handle buffer overflows and cycle-stealing.)
6EkQJ TIL that a lost wallet led to the 5th Dimension recording “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In.”After one of the group’s members left his wallet in a taxi, a producer of “Hair” found it and invited the singers to the Broadway show, inspiring them to record what became one of 1969’s biggest hits.
7rOLL TIL of David Buckel, who self-immolated to protest the burning of fossil fuels. He left a note to police apologizing for the mess and built a fire ring so the fire would not spread.
P5DJ TIL NASA contemplated sending giant beach ball-like rovers to Mars that would be propelled by wind