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TIL Roger Babson, the first economic forecaster to predict the 1929 crash and Great Depression, thought of gravity as his sworn enemy and tried to get rid of it.

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nDaW TIL Mattel once tried to sue Aqua over their song “Barbie Girl”. The judge literally told them to “chill”.
l71la TIL that while the pledge of allegiance was created in 1892, the words "under God" were only added in 1954.
XE0ZD TIL Pastafarians in Wisconsin are allowed to wear their headdresses in their driver's license photos
BgKWK TIL: Colombia (country) announced in Dec that it will attempt to retrieve treasures from the 1708 shipwreck of San José which contains billions of dollars worth of gold, silver, emeralds, etc despite the ongoing legal battle between the US, Spain, and Columbia over who owns it.
16A0D TIL: In the over 60 year history of human space flight, only 3 astronauts have actually died in space, it happened in 1971 when their Soyuz 11 capsule depressurized above the Karman line, which is considered as the boundary between the earth's atmosphere and outer space