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TIL it costs $10,000 per pound for NASA to launch a payload into orbit. NASA’s Advanced Space Transportation Program is developing technologies to reduce this to $100 per pound by 2025.

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KYrp6 TIL that rather confusingly “lime tree” can refer to two very different and unrelated trees, at least in the UK. A lime tree is one that produces citrus fruit, or one of the genus Tilia (in North America often called Linden not to confuse with the citrus one)
LkJPr TIL that before Charles Martin Hall discovered a cheaper way for smelting aluminium the metal was more expensive than gold or platinum.
ne7Rr TIL that Benedict Cumberbatch was kidnapped at gunpoint in South Africa. He talked his way out of being killed and said "It taught me that you come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary”
W77Yo TIL there was a cult devoted to Gadget from Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers
BgePe TIL there are seven NFL teams currently without cheerleaders