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TIL that people estimate NASA’s budget to be 24% of the national budget, on average. It’s currently only ~0.48%.

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lvw5 TIL There is a rare Japanese game on the PS1 called LSD: Dream Emulator
MDo0 TIL that Stonehenge isn’t actually a henge, which is odd since the word “henge” comes from Stonehenge
VMorQ TIL there is a condition called Aphantasia, where a person is unable to conjure up visual images in their imagination. When they close their eyes and think of an object, there is no visual imagery of the object - instead they imagine concepts that would describe the object.
j6Grv TIL: Video Games Have Shown a Strong Statistical Link to Improving Medical Surgeon Performance
JgE1 TIL 10-year old Tilly Smith saved her family and 100 other tourists from the 2004 Asian tsunami, by recognizing signs of tsunamis she had learned in a geography lesson two weeks before.