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TIL Thad Roberts, a NASA intern, spent 7 years in federal prison after having sex with his girlfriend on a bed full of stolen moon rocks.

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1WbP TIL there are more black people in Chicago than in all of Canada.
MvnV TIL William Ward, the University of Michigan football head coach in 1896, would go on to develop early surgical procedures to construct artificial vaginas.
ZXdv TIL a study showed male crickets fought more violently, and upon winning, were more jubilant (like a touchdown dance) when other crickets were in the audience
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epRPD TIL: More than 1,800 antique papyrus scrolls from 79 AD were preserved by being carbonized due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius - some contained hitherto lost works and the efforts to read them are still on-going