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Mej7B TIL the Apollo moonshot rocket was fueled by kerosene
Ggwj TIL the BBC Concert Orchestra w/conductor Charles Hazlewood performed Tchaikovsky’s “1812” overture using nothing but junk yard scrap and it was impressive!
QN7aE TIL in the TV show House, the producers originally wanted as part of the opening sequence during the theme song, to include an image of a cane and an image of a Vicodin bottle but Fox objected so they settled on rowers on a lake instead.
LQXLV Today I learned that LDS Prophet Brigham Young owned a whisky distillery
69B78 TIL that the precursor to LASIK, Radial Keratotomy, where operations to correct vision would be done “manually with a blade”, often led to many issues, such as vision loss and infection because the incision remains open indefinitely. "It is well documented that RK incisions never completely heal..."