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TIL NASA injected mice with moon dust from the apollo missions, including other species.

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kOOmm TIL Boba Fett (bounty hunter of Star Wars fame) didn't make his debut in Empire Strikes Back. The character's first appearance was in the Star Wars Holiday Special.
mxX7p TIL that the Where’s Waldo book series was released with different names internationally. In Britain you were looking for Wally, Germans searched for tiny Walter, the French scoured the pages for petite Charlie, and if you were a young South African you tried to spot a little Willie.
0dQkL TIL: Brandolini's law aka the Bullshit asymmetry principle: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
YEjd TIL in the 80s Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) allegations created a morale panic putting innocent people behind bars, destroyed careers, and changed the way children are questioned. It formed the basis of many morale panics against Heavy Metal, video games, and D&D.
4Ejg TIL in 1961 a B-52 broke up over Goldsboro, NC dropping two 3.8MT H-bombs, each exceeding the yield of all detonations in worldwide history by TNT, gunpowder, conv. bombs, and the WWII nuclear blasts combined. One came perilously close to detonating and creating “a very large Bay of North Carolina.“