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TIL Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt presented a 14 gram lunar rock sample sealed in a clear container the size of a pickle jar to the White House in 2018 to mark Space Policy Directive 1, which directs NASA to return humans to the moon

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YpmRW TIL 'Desire paths' is the term for the paths that are naturally created by people's footfalls when they walk around paved paths. Some universities and hospitals have avoided these by waiting to see where they formed naturally, then paving over established desire paths.
4Y5w TIL that due to popular misconceptions, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration keeps a webpage explaining “Why don’t we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them”
d8DpK TIL that for most of his reign, King George III had the official title of "George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and so forth"
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8eRKG TIL about the Public Resource License of Scientific Advancement | Oxford | Released in 2021 to prevent universities from patenting student inventions, corps from patenting life/meds, and allows for any concept or work to be protected from WIPO so all humans can use freely; built from corp. law.