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TIL A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus

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pYvvA TIL Apollo 11 flight controller Bill Moon was the first Asian American to work in NASA's Mission Control. Moon would go on to work on every manned space program before he retired after 37 years
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BkDL TIL that Aldous Huxley was George Orwell’s French teacher
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