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TIL that NASA is currently attempting to bring the “Monstrous F-1 moon rocket back to life”… and pretty successfully too.

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b9LDN TIL: Zoot Suit Riots were a series of anti-Mexican youth riots in Los Angeles that happened in 1943. The suits worn were seen as unpatriotic because of the amount of fabric used, and later became prohibited during the Second World War because of their wastefulness of cloth.
dbvZ TIL that a man named Armand Hammer coincidentally ended up on the board of directors for Arm & Hammer
OG67X TIL thousands of Enron emails are available online after they were made publicly available when Enron was being investigated by energy regulators
4aMJ TIL Mark Twain was born and died in the same years that Halley’s Comet flew by the Earth. Twain said, “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.” He died of a heart attack day after the Comet’s closest approach in 1910.
4YOg TIL your state’s highest paid public employee is probably a football coach