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TIL that in Brazil there is a football field located exactly on the equator so each team defends one hemisphere

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GAGg7 TIL When the Apollo astronauts were out of radio contact with the ground, they had a tape recorder inside their spacecraft that recorded their private, unguarded conversations. These transcripts were classified until the late 1970s because they included detailed information about Apollo operations
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