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Jun 20, 2020

TIL that the 2011 earthquake in Japan was so powerful that it shifted the entire island 8 feet to the East (up to 13 feet in some regions) and shifted the Earth's axis by over 6 inches.

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Jun 06, 2020

TIL NASA as a practical joke played Hello Dolly to wake the Gemini 6 crew in 1965. The astronauts loved it and a tradition was born. Until 2011, families were allowed to choose a favorite song to wake up their loved one in space.

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Jun 01, 2020

TIL in 2012 the US Defense Dept. Donated Two Space Telescopes to NASA, That Are Better Than the Hubble Telescope, Because They Were Too Old, and Out of Date!

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Feb 25, 2020

TIL that American and Russian astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have different water supplies. Its because the Americans drink recycled urine while the Russians refuse to do so. The NASA astronauts even collect the Russians urine to increase their own supply...

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Feb 19, 2020

TIL that THE FIRST CRIME PERPETRATED IN SPACE was by astronaut Anne McClain, accused of illegally accessing her wife’s bank account during her stay on the International Space Station.

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Dec 30, 2019

TIL that during the Apollo 10 mission a turd was found floating around the spacecraft in zero gravity, but none of the astronauts on board would admit that it was theirs.

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Dec 21, 2019

TIL that in the 85 years since Pluto’s discovery, it has yet to complete a single orbit of the Sun. A single Plutonian year is 247.68 Earth years.

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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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Sep 05, 2019

TIL That Snoopy is NASA's official safety mascot. Every astronaut since 1968 has worn a silver Snoopy pin into space; upon return, the astronauts present the pin as a special recognition to a civilian team member who helped keep them safe.

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Aug 27, 2019

TIL a revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity was recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station. It is the first known music video recording done in space.

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Aug 01, 2019

TIL The Soviet Union provided its ships locations to Mission Control of Apollo 13 to aid in the rescue of the crew.

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Jul 16, 2019

TIL in 1979 when the Skylab re-entry approached the San Francisco Examine offered $10,000 to the first person to deliver a piece to them within 72hrs knowing it wasn't heading toward the USA. A 17yr old Aussie collected a piece, jumped on a plane with no passport or luggage and collected his prize.

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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 16, 2019

TIL Pete Conrad (3rd Man on Moon) to prove a journalist wrong who thought the government told the astronauts what to say while on the moon bet her $500 dollars and said, "Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me." According to him, he never got that $500.

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May 28, 2019

TIL NASA's Juno spacecraft travelled 1.8 billion miles over almost five years and arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016 at 8:53 PM US Pacific time, only ONE SECOND off-schedule.

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