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TIL NASA plans for space station's demise with new SpaceX "Deorbit Vehicle"

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9YBK7 TIL that in the 1800s in a domain in the Philippines, feudal lords prevented peasants to celebrate festivals except for one every year. The peasants used this opportunity to mock the lords by making giant puppet versions of them. The festival is celebrated yearly since then.
J1QKV TIL the famous photo of Marines raising the American flag over Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima taken on Feb. 23, 1945, was actually the second flag raised there that day. AP photographer Joe Rosenthal missed the first raising because he was "still climbing up the mountain at the time"
6Pdl TIL that when asked what it was like working with Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis, comedian Doug Stanhope (who hosted GGW) responded “He’s pure, unadulterated evil” and “The most awful human being I’ve ever met in all of my time in the entertainment business.”
b6pXZ TIL In Addition to the Well-Known Reading Disorders, There Are Also Writing Disorders
xXK7 TIL on December 1, 1948, a dead man bearing no identification was found on an Australian beach. Well dressed in clothes with deliberately torn-out labels, in excellent physical condition, and having left behind a rare book containing a bizarre code, the man remains unidentified to this day.