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DQ16r TIL computer scientist Jean-Marc Salotti calculated that in order to survive, a human colony on Mars would need at least 110 indidivuals. At this number, growth would offset many of the factors that could lead to collapse of the society.
e68k TIL that, as a child, Kevin Spacey burned down his sister’s treehouse and was then sent to military school. He was then expelled from military school after throwing a tire at a student’s head.
wLd6o TIL about “concussionist" R.G. Dyrenforth, hired by the U.S. government in 1891 to make it rain over Texas by blasting water from the skies with explosives. Despite being "certain that rain can be caused by explosion in mid-air," he just managed to catch all manner of things on fire with his kites.
BgrRD TIL Virgin Atlantic kept having passengers steal their popular salt and pepper shakers. Instead of removing them from the plane, they placed the words "pinched from Virgin Atlantic" at the bottom. The shakers then became dinner table conversation pieces and free advertisement.
wANP TIL A five-year review of dog-bite injuries from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, published in 2009 in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, found that almost 51 percent of the attacks were from pit bulls