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TIL that a NASA intern unknowingly purchased original footage from the Apollo 11 voyage at a government auction in 1976 for $217.77. He found out over 30 years later and sold them for $1.82m at Sotheby’s.
kOGr4
TIL that autistic people have around 27 billion neurons on average. For the sake of comparison, a non autistic adult has around 16 billion neurons, and a chimpanzee around has 8 billion.
DY7V
TIL There are only 77 registered hand guns in Japan. The US has approximately 114 MILLION.
xr11
TIL that in French, Catalan or in Occitan, “cul-de-sac” literally means “ass of a bag”. J. R. R. Tolkien used the name Bag End as a literal translation of “cul-de-sac”, to poke fun at the British use of French terms.
nenB9
TIL that, after their bomber crashed in Japan in 1945, eight American Airmen were taken to Kyushu University Medical School and dissected alive.