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TIL that James Bedford is the first person to have his body cryopreserved in 1967 and it is still in storage.

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BgLyr TIL a high school student wrote a text-based moon landing simulation in 1969 using a PDP-8 minicomputer. It was "a question and answer game" - at each stage of the landing you'd find out your current velocity and then you had to enter how much fuel to use. If you burned fuel too early, you'd crash.
wo0BE TIL about the 2 wands error in Harry Potter books. Had read it as a child but didn't realise it then.
yQ5Wv TIL that Timothy Leary was able to get out of prison after he filled in a psych test which put him as low-risk…which he himself designed.
A50l TIL when news of JFK’s assassination was announced in Alabama public schools (which JFK had forced to desegregate 6 months earlier), many white students cheered.
dZj7 TIL the odds of your father’s sperm meeting with your mother’s egg to create you is 1 in 4 quadrillion. The odds of you existing as yourself (traced back to your first ancestors) is 10^2,685.000.