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TIL "Mad" Mike Hughes died after crashing in his homemade steam powered rocket. He launched from the California desert and hoped to reach the Kármán Line, where Earth's atmosphere meets outer space 62 miles above the ground to prove that the Earth is a flat disk and not a sphere.

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ApKw TIL Star Wars production assistant Ian Bryce arrived on set to find a note from the Ewok actors saying they all had quit and were on their way to fly home. After panicking, he was relieved to see the Ewok bus pull up in the lot, with all the actors wearing ‘Revenge Of The Ewok’ t-shirts.
0wvkv TIL How Bono from the band U2 exercised one of his newly given rights after receiving Dublin's Freedom of the City award. One of these ancient privileges was the right to pasture sheep on common ground within city boundaries. To celebrate he took lambs to graze on St Stephen's Green.
djXK TIL: U.S. Senator Jake Garn who flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery as a payload specialist experienced such severe space sickness that a scale for space sickness was named after him, where “one Garn” is used to represent total incapacitation.
WnoL TIL of Joe Arridy, a man with an IQ of 46 and the “happiest prisoner on death row.” He spent his time on death row playing with a toy train, and he went into the gas chamber with a smile. It turned out he was innocent.
x0OD TIL MTV fired Russell Brand several days after coming to work dressed as Osama bin Laden the day after the 11 September 2001 attacks and bringing his drug dealer to the MTV studios