TIL Apollo 13 Splashdown Broadcast was the 4th most watched event in the history of UK, it even got more viewers than the Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana
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The meaning of the second equation in Gravity Rainbow
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TIL in order to boost the sales of his book Leaves of Grass, american writer Walt Whitman wrote anonymous reviews highly praising his work
mentalfloss.com/article/77096/when-walt-whitm...
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TIL in 1916 Albert Einstein wrote an article proposing a more efficient shape for wings. The plane built with his wings barely left the ground.
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Would it have happened on the Five Kilometer Island? If not, why didn't the USA switch over to metric system right away?
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