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TIL Fishing line should be replaced yearly

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BgOBy TIL the Apollo program is the largest ever research & development project to be executed during peacetime. It cost $25.4 billion (roughly $257 billion adjusted for inflation). At its peak, it accounted for over half of NASA'a total spending in the 1960s and employed over 400K people across the US.
X0BvE TIL that Son Heung-min, captain of both the South Korean national team and Tottenham Hotspur, completed basic training with the Republic of Korea Marine Corps—finishing in the top five out of 157 trainees. He also learned German by watching episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants
jNmRE TIL that 5,500 Sacajawea dollars that were included in boxes of Cheerios were struck from a different set of master dies than regular Sacajawea dollars, making them with thousands of dollars today.
5Qj8 TIL a photon emitted from the sun’s core takes 100,000-200,000 years to reach its surface
D1Z5g TIL although Polynesians are only 0.3% of the US population 5.4% of the top 204 players drafted this year by the NFL are of Polynesian decent.