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TIL The temperature on the moon at the Apollo 11 landing site was 200ºF (93ºC).
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Submitted April 27, 2023 at 07:42PM by newtownkid
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TIL the author of a best selling evangelical book, "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" which promoted "Purity Culture" and condemned pre-marital touching including kissing, disavowed his book, divorced his wife, and renounced Christianity
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Submitted April 27, 2023 at 08:24PM by T1mac
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TIL that there is enough space between the moon and the Earth that all of the other planets in our solar system could fit between them.
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Submitted April 27, 2023 at 11:29AM by cobbl3
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TIL that EU citizen can demand a copy of all personal data that companies hold about them. However, most Android and iPhone apps completely ignore this right, a study has found.
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Submitted April 27, 2023 at 09:34PM by VarunTossa5944
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TIL that the low cost wine brand "Two Buck Chuck" was created by Fred Franzia, who bought the Charles Shaw name from a bankrupt winery for $27k. Once when asked why his wine was cheaper than water, he replied "They're overcharging for the water. Don't you get it?"
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Submitted April 28, 2023 at 12:36AM by Specialist_Check
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TIL Oliver Smoot, whose body was used to measure Boston's Harvard Bridge as part of an MIT fraternity prank in 1958, went on to become the chairman of the American National Standards Institute and the president of the International Organization for Standardization.
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Submitted April 28, 2023 at 12:00AM by commonwaytogo
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TIL about Jimi Heselden, who purchased Segway in 2009. 9 months later he fell into a river while riding a Segway and died.
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Submitted April 28, 2023 at 02:49AM by NoGoodGodGames
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TIL about the Pizzly Bear, a Polar and Grizzly Bear hybrid. This hybrid species isn't sterile and can actually procreate.
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Submitted April 28, 2023 at 03:38AM by Shwifty_Plumbus
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TIL Robert Richards of the DuPont family abused his 3 year old daughter and after being sentenced to 8 years in prison, he was released immediately as the judge claimed that the "defendant will not fare well" in prison
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Submitted April 28, 2023 at 05:17AM by dancingonsaturnsring
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TIL about Edwarda O'Bara, a Florida woman who went into a diabetic coma for 42 years after contracting pneumonia. Nicknamed "Florida's sleeping Snow White," her mother took care of her to the point that by 2007, 5 years before Edwarda passed, she was at least $200k in debt.
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Submitted April 28, 2023 at 06:00AM by crazyseandx
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TIL that everyone wears Crocs in the 2006 movie Idiocracy because the costume designer had a limited shoe budget, and thought the cheap plastic shoes made by the then startup company were futuristic yet too stupid looking to ever become popular in real life
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Submitted April 28, 2023 at 09:59AM by DonnieJepp
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TIL When It debuted in 1929, 7-Up soda contained lithium citrate, the compound now used by psychiatrist as mood stabilizer for people with bipolar disorder. It was initially marketed as Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime soda.
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Submitted April 28, 2023 at 10:14AM by No_Visit8945
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TIL Edward G. Robinson spoke seven languages and used atleast six of them to deliver anti-Nazi speeches from London during the Second World War. Additionally Robinson was the first movie star to entertain the troops in Normandy, crossing the channel less than a month after the invasion.
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Submitted April 28, 2023 at 02:04PM by jamescookenotthatone
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TIL The longest ever personal name was that of a German-born American called Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. His full, unabbreviated name is made up of 26 names, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet, in alphabetical order, followed by a 666-letter surname
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Submitted April 28, 2023 at 01:42PM by mrlonelywolf
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