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TIL in 1968 as the Apollo 8 crew first approached the moon, they read the 1st ten verses of The Old Testament. The Bible verses are about the creation of light, Earth and the waters. It was the most watched broadcast in history at the time.

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0wdv TIL that the new Texas Instrument calculators have ABC keyboards because if they had QWERTY keyboards, they would be considered computers and wouldn’t be allowed for standardized test taking
yGRe TIL philosopher Voltaire would drink 50-72 cups of coffee each day.
LloP TIL the word “niggardly” is an adjective meaning “stingy” or “miserly,” and is completely unrelated to the racial slur “nigger” despite their phonetic similarity.
4XyDo TIL Hattie Wyatt Caraway was not only the first woman to serve a full term in the United States Senate, but also the first to be re-elected. She was the first female legislator to cosponsor the Equal Rights Amendment, and her grave is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
wLVo6 TIL Winston Churchill had so much respect for the American Constitution that he called it the best constitution ever written in English