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Mar 26, 2020

TIL Columbus was marooned on the shores of Jamaica in 1503. The indigenous people gave his crew food but were tired of them stealing. After several months of this, they refused to help. Then Columbus used an upcoming blood moon to convince them God was mad at them. They started giving food again.

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Mar 18, 2020

TIL Christopher Columbus used a book of astronomical tables when the next lunar eclipse would take place and use it to warn the indigenous people in Jamaica to treat his crew better or else the moon would rise red. Lunar eclipse happened, and they pleaded Columbus to restore the moon.

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Dec 04, 2019

TIL that faking the Moon landing in 1969 would have costed nearly triple the amount of actually going to the Moon.

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Nov 21, 2019

TIL Apollo 11 landed on the moon just 66 years after the Wright Brother's first flight.

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Jun 26, 2019

TIL much of the work on the Apollo 11 spacecraft was done entirely by hand. For instance, parachutes were manually stitched and folded by only three indispensable, trained professionals who were forbidden from riding in the same car to prevent all three from being injured in the same accident.

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Jun 20, 2019

TIL An Ancient Greek philosopher was exiled for claiming the moon was a rock, not a god.

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