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TIL if you have no debts and $10 in your pocket, you have more wealth than 25% of Americans

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ADlRl TIL following Hurricane Katrina, the Coast Guard immediately began rescuing survivors, without consulting Washington, days ahead of the rest of the federal response.
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W4jX TIL once Astronaut Ed Mitchell was asked how it’s like to stand on the moon, he said “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
B5bk TIL a nurse wanted to know if her farts were contaminating equipment in the lab. The doctor and a microbiologist tested the hypothesis by having a colleague fart clothed then naked onto two Petri dishes. The conclusion was that clothing acts as a filter, but naked farts can cause contamination.