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TIL the astronauts from the 1st moon landing were quarantined with mice for two weeks. If the mice survived, the astronauts would be let out

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kBBW TIL that by some estimates, there is over 70 million years’ worth of salt 1,200 feet beneath the city of Detroit.
6E57J TIL In Thailand, it was considered a capital offense punishable by death if someone touched the queen. in 1880, The queen drowned when her royal boat capsized on the way to the Palace. The many witnesses to the accident did not dare to touch the queen while she was drowning.
Z8GWY TIL When it gets too hot in Australia, the nectar in certain flowers will ferment and turn into alcohol. These bees get "drunk" and are not allowed back into the hive before they sober up.
vlEB TIL in a private cemetery in Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them.
GEL4 TIL that flipping a coin isn’t a 50/50 odd… It is actually around 51/49 to the side up when you flip