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TIL in 2017 a woman sold a lunar collection bag (used during the Apollo 11 mission) with moon dust embedded within it for $1.5m. She had bought it for $995 after it was accidentally put up for auction. When she sent it in for testing, NASA had refused to give it back. However, a judge sided with her

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OoGNe TIL of Lee Lorch a mathematician blacklisted in the 50s by most US universities for his civil rights activism. Before his death in 2014 he was asked if he would have done anything any differently. "More and better of the same," he replied.
B6xk TIL Michael Jordan returned to the NBA in 2001 and pledged to donate his salary to the relief efforts for the victims of 9/11
Rp66 TIL: An elderly couple was unable to remove three Kirby vacuum salesmen from their home for over five hours;a disabled woman living in a mobile home on $1000/month income and suffering from Alzheimers was discovered to own two Kirby vacuum cleaners, having paid $1,700 for the second one
4xkR TIL in the 1930s, an Irish man named Michael Malloy survived being intentionally fed Antifreeze, Terpentine, Rat Poison, being left in -14 Degree Weather and getting hit by a taxi in a life insurance scam. His nickname became “Mike the Durable”.
k9rE TIL that in 1937, a gas leak in the basement at the local school in New London, Texas caused a massive explosion which killed almost 300 children and teachers, the deadliest school disaster in US history. Adolf Hitler even sent his condolences by telegram.