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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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awOWN TIL that Pythagoras cannot have been the first to discover the Pythagorean theorem because it was known and used by the Babylonians over a millennium before he was born.
kYNe TIL when Saladin died, he only had 1 piece of gold and 47 pieces of silver left because he gave so much to the poor.
59vp TIL the creator of Samuel Adams founded an organization that helps entrepreneurs start businesses by offering coaching, problem-solving, and micro-loans.
XEEjr TIL the main singer/songwriter from Eels is the son of the physicist who originated the "Many Worlds" interpretation of quantum theory
OoZEX TIL when King George V was near death in 1936, his doctor injected him with, "750mg of morphine and a gram of cocaine – enough to kill him twice over – in order to ease [his] suffering, and to have him expire in time for the printing presses of the Times, which rolled at midnight."