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TIL astronaut David Scott dropped a hammer and a feather on the moon, repeating Galileo’s gravity experiment

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OGa74 TIL of Togo Heihachiro a Japanese admiral, who helped defeat Russia in 1905. Heihachiro believed he was the reincarnation of Horatio Nelson and was so admired that upon his death, the navies of the UK, USA, France, Netherlands Italy and China all honoured him.
eppek TIL Jens Haaning was paid 84k to create artwork but delivered two large BLANK canvases titled “Take The Money and Run”
1M7X TIL During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, four NOPD officers shot a man named Henry Glover, attacked civillians that came to his aid, and then set fire to his corpse. They are facing sentences of 25+ years each.
xX0o TIL that Microsoft and Sony charge developers $40,000 to patch games
Pmoe TIL That when Marjorie Gross, writer for Seinfeld (and others) was dying of Ovarian Cancer, she found humor in her imminent death by joking that she wanted to hold on until November 1996 so that she wouldn’t be reincarnated as Madonna’s child as she was pregnant at the time.