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TIL that Billy Madison was shot entirely in Canada

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WkW8 TIL NASA has an Office of Planetary Protection, in case we DO find life on other planets.
1ag0D TIL The first issue of National Geographic in 1888 didn't have a single photograph and included highly technical articles such as "The Classification of Geographic Forms by Genesis"
DQL8p TIL in 1982 a BA 747 lost all four engines and had its windscreen sandblasted after flying through an Indonesian volcanic eruption. The pilot landed, at night and with limited visuals, and commented afterwards that it was "a bit like negotiating one's way up a badger's arse."
wLwxJ TIL NBA player Shaquille O’Neal requested to be (and now is) the spokesperson for The General car insurance because he was a customer while in College and remains a customer to this day
6E6xm TIL that on October 8, 1871, three of the worst fires in American history began. The Great Chicago Fire displaced 100,000, the Great Michigan fire burned 2.5 million acres of forest, and the Peshtigo fire remains America's deadliest with 1200-2500 killed.