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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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YpPr TIL the Leaning Tower of Pisa was almost destroyed by the Allied Forces because it was being used as an observation post by Germany. A soldier who was sent to confirm the use by the Germans prevented the airstrike that would have destroyed it because he was impressed by the beauty of it.
7G9M TIL Harvard researchers were able to store 700 terabytes of data on a single gram of DNA.
KYbYE TIL that in 1957, "Babycham" was the first alcoholic product to be advertised on British commercial television. The drink is a sparkling alcoholic cider made from pears, and was marketed as a "genuine champagne perry".
LYyr TIL that after the capture of a serial killer of children, a police officer found his own daughter tied and gagged in the back of the killer’s van.
e0dK6 TIL of the scrapped animated spin-off of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The show would have followed fictional winners of the show who communicated with a fictional host based in the 'Millionaire Command Center'