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TIL Homer Hickam presented a 16 year old High School student with a scholarship to the United States Advanced Space Academy to compensate for her expulsion from School and arrest on felony charges after her science experiment resulted in a small explosion.

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4ko0J TIL that Lenin's body has been preserved for more than 100 years
W7kaL TIL the city of Sodo in Ethiopia only gets up to 57F (14C) average temperatures in the summer despite being near the equator because of its location in the Ethiopian Highlands. The city's highest point is roughly 1700 ft higher than Denver.
4mlR TIL: The largest lottery win ever was $ 941.8 million.
6E0gW TIL that the first large scale human trial for the birth control pill was conducted on Puerto Rican women in the 1950s. These women were unknowingly participating in the clinical trial and deaths of participants were not investigated.
PPDn TIL the saying ‘Diamonds are Forever’ is pure marketing: after the South African diamond rush, the value of the diamond should have plummeted if not for the Oppenheimer family managing to convince the world that diamonds have always been associated with love.