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TIL Crash test dummies cost $1million

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yDvV Til that if an astronaut “loses it” in space, part of the protocol is to restrain them with duck tape.
KYLXJ TIL in 1971 a group of activists broke into an FBI office in Delaware and got away with 1000 secret documents. The plan was to do the heist during "the match of the century" between Ali and Frazer, predicting that security would be glued to their tv's for the match, and thus distracted
a8GEy TIL: Despite losing the videotape format war in 1988, the last Betamax tape was made in 2016.
gMwDb TIL the spice Paprika is made from ground up red Bell Peppers.
d8Qwr TIL that Bhutan only permitted television and the Internet in 1999, with the King saying that television was a critical step to the modernization of Bhutan, but warning that the "misuse" of this new technology could erode traditional Bhutanese values