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TIL that Apollo 11 Astronauts filled Custom Forms after coming back from the Moon

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p8daO TIL over 800,000 women served in the Red Army during World War 2, a significant portion of whom did so in combat roles; there were female snipers, machine-gunners, anti-air gunners, tank crews and even pilots, with some bomber regiments being made up entirely of women, including the ground crews.
BM9k TIL that by tradition, a portrait of Franklin Roosevelt hangs over the mantel of the Roosevelt Room during the administration of a president from the Democratic Party and a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt is hung up and during the administration of a Republican president
EAv7 TIL that when pregnant women die, gasses expelled from decomposition can cause vaginal ejection of the fetus, a phenomenon known as ‘coffin birth.’
OoRk6 TIL that since 2016, the real bones of nazist Josef Mengele, the nazist Angel of Death, are used in a brazilian school to teach medical forensics.
n6VB TIL just months after the Hiroshima bombing, Kix cereal offered an atomic-bomb-shaped ring in exchange for a box-top and 15 cents. Each contained a glowing sample of polonium.