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TIL that I remember when class and charter were present in US leadership.

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kLY7 TIL the guy who played Scotty in Star Trek shot two snipers on D-Day and was shot seven times in WWII
kO6v1 TIL about vanity sizing, which is the practice of assigning smaller sizes to clothing to flatter customers and encourage sales. For example, a Sears dress with a 32 inch (81 cm) bust was labeled a size 14 in the 1930s, a size 8 in the 1960s, and a size 0 in the 2010s.
LQVaV TIL Travelers on the Oregon and Mormon Trails would stop at the Little Sandy Creek in Wyoming. Depending on the season and route, this was the last water for almost 40 miles. So many left without enough water for animals that the trail became strewn with abandoned wagons, carcasses and gravesites.
BrEVD TIL that the Soviet Union sent an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in an attempt to bring back lunar soil. It was in lunar orbit as Armstrong and Aldrin performed their famous spacewalk. It crashed on the lunar surface hours before the Apollo astronauts lifted off for their return to Earth.
b9D90 TIL that Carl Sagan lived in an Egyptian Revival home called The Sphinx Head Tomb in Ithaca, NY