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TIL that the former chief of NASA holds six graduate degrees

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BrKVy TIL the original Xbox had actual recordings of the Apollo missions in the menu sounds
8ewe8 TIL that Peni Parker from Into the Spiderverse was created by Gerard Way (lead singer of My Chemical Romance and creator of The Umbrella Academy). He wrote the comic book she debuted in.
5Y678 TIL of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of King Henry VII. She had her son at just 13 years old after marrying Edmund Tudor, who was 12 years her senior. He died of the plague when she was seven months pregnant. Since she was so young, the birth was extremely difficult.
d846Z TIL the Snoop Dogg pleaded to his brother-in-law, the Peanut Butter Jelly Time singer, to surrender to cops after an 11 hour showdown
KOoWa TIL one of the first people to use the term "American Exceptionalism" was Stalin in 1929 when he argued that USA was not at all exceptional, and that it will eventually fall to revolution like any other nation.