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TIL the Apollo 8 Mission returned from Lunar orbit on Christmas Day and landed safely in the ocean, between Christmas Island and Hawaii, at night

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8XQV TIL The ashes of Eugene Merle Shoemaker, the founder of the field of planetary science, were buried on the moon. To date, he is the only person whose ashes have been buried on the Moon.
ZPvo TIL only 26 games have ever been given the “AO” rating by the ESRB.
9wNvQ TIL there is a partially underwater prison near the capital of Estonia that is a popular diving spot. The lake under which it is submerged was the quarry where the prisoners worked when the prison was operational. When it was abandoned the groundwater submerged it.
kblE TIL The Civil War started in Wilmer McLean’s backyard and ended in his Parlor despite the fact that he moved nearly 120 miles away after it had started
4kODb TIL that from 2009 to 2019, out of 212 cruise ship overboard incidents only 48 people were rescued.