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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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epkY5 TIL that lightsaber fights have become an official sport in France. As of 2019, it was the first country in the world to recognize it as such.
4QXJ TIL that Dogbert from Dilbert was originally going to be called Dildog, but Scott changed the because any printing error that dropped the G would wreak havoc.
grvQ4 TIL Almost straight after deployment, Hubble’s optics were found to be flawed. The best solution was to build replacement instruments that fixed the flaw much the same way a pair of glasses correct the vision of a near-sighted person.
adGJ TIL many Iraqis believed that the Oakleys worn by American soldiers gave them X-ray vision, to see through Iraqi women’s clothes.
awnyN TIL that God Bless America was written by a Russian immigrant. This Russian immigrant was Irving Berlin.