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TIL Plans were in place to sever all communication w/ Astronauts on the moon if they had been stranded by a technical failure.

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j7RQ TIL that in 2013 a Chinese woman went on trial for murder after she squeezed a shopkeepers testicles so hard that he died.
e0NP4 TIL After her husband was executed by the King of France, Jeanne de Clisson set off on a quest of piracy and bloody justice. She would personally behead any aristocrats on board captures ships with her ax.
KOWZR TIL the USA spent $14mill researching marine mammals as weapons in 2017 (e.g. dolphins and sea lions)
p8dQ TIL Adolf Hitler regularly injected himself with Amphetamine (Speed) along with other “unorthodox medications”.
nbMY TIL the US Capitol has a 116-year-old private subway for the exclusive use of congressmen and their staff