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TIL that during the Apollo 10 mission a turd was found floating around the spacecraft in zero gravity, but none of the astronauts on board would admit that it was theirs.

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5618 TIL Oskar Schindler(of Schindler’s List) is the only member of the Nazi Party to be buried in Jerusalem on Mount Zion,Israel
OoWDX TIL Rick Wakeman started to wear capes onstage in order to hide the weird way he moved while operating footpedals, which a journalist said made him look like a demented spider. In some countries now, a show organiser will write into his contract that he must wear a cape
78rdM TIL Public DNA records can be used to find distant relatives of criminals, from which investigators can build a family tree and catch said criminals
v1ZN8 TIL that the phrase "A-OK" originated from NASA engineers who used it during radio transmission tests because "the sharper sound of A cut through the static better than O"
jVRa TIL that the “post-rain” smell is caused by a mixture of plant oils, bacterial spores, and ozone