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TIL NASA's longest serving female employee since January 1958, Sue Finley, has been an engineer and programmer for space missions since Explorer 1, for missions to the Moon, Sun, all the planets and many other solar system bodies, and recipient of NASA's Exceptional Public Service Medal.

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VM7Kk TIL In 1794, the world's tallest structure, the Strasbourg Cathedral spire, was saved by a hat. Revolutionaries wanted to tear down the spire, as it stood against equality. The citizens of Strasbourg crowned it with a giant tin Phrygian cap, a symbol of liberty commonly worn by revolutionaries.
wL4PE TIL "Spandau" was the manufacturer of Nazi machine guns - when the weapon was fired at someone's shins they would dance around, in a "Spandau Ballet"
wo5EW TIL in 1800 vice president Thomas Jefferson received a report of a large, brightly glowing light which was witnessed hovering in the Louisiana sky. Later, he presented the report to the American Philosophical Society and wrote about the event in his diary.
ePeE TIL that Helen Keller was a radical socialist. She observed that cases of blindness were more prevalent in lower classes, citing blindness from industrial accidents and contraction of syphilis via prostitution, and thus felt that blindness was a result of social injustice.
R76X6 TIL that when South Korea was upset with North Korea over nuclear testing they blasted K-pop music over the border to annoy them and included the boy band hit “Bang Bang Bang.”