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TIL that Hawaiian Water-Powered Jet Packs Pose a Threat to Fishes and Coral Reef

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kJ6k5 TIL the book on which the movie "The Exorcist" is based was initially a failure. The author lucked out when he was invited as a last-minute guest on late night show, The Dick Cavett Show. Subsequently, the book hit The New York Times best-seller list and was picked up by Warner Bros for the movie.
gMPAA TIL that Eugene Shoemaker is the only man buried on the Moon. On July 31, 1999, some of his ashes were carried to the Moon by the Lunar Prospector space probe in a capsule.
j6N8R TIL Before telescopes, Chinese astronomers in the Song dynasty made naked eye observations of solar phenomena during sunrises/sunsets or through clouds. It was recorded on 11 January CE 1077, in the sun were black spots as large as plums
eQDn TIL In WWII, only 8,300 British and American POWs—3.6 percent—died in German custody. 3.3 Million Soviet POWs—57%—were killed because they were seen as racially inferior.
0DX5 TIL After having slaves build Genghis Khan’s tomb, they were killed, and the soldiers who killed them were also killed in order to conceal the burial site.