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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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KYkOJ TIL that only in 2012, Johannes Kepler, one of the founders of modern astronomy and modern science in general, was cleared from being a suspect in the possible murder of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who employed him as an assistant at the time of his death.
P0wG TIL Stanislav Petrov holds the title as “The man who saved the world” after stopping all out nuclear war
KODL6 TIL in 2011, a woman with bipolar disorder tried to enter a resturant via air duct but got stuck on the way. Because of where she was stuck, no one could hear her and she was found dead days later
brra TIL Sail by AWOLNATION has been on the BBC Top 40 indie charts for 185 weeks
9Y5B7 TIL about Navy Seaman Charles Jackson French who, after his ship the USS Gregory was sunk in WWII, swam for 6-8 hours towing a raft of 15 survivors through shark-infested waters. He later received the Navy Cross.