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TIL that certain houses at Hampshire College were named after 4 towns that were purposely flooded to create a huge reservoir in Massachusetts.

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dLDZ TIL for Star Trek’s groundbreaking interracial kiss, NBC worried that Southern affiliates might refuse to air the episode, so they filmed the scene with and without the kiss, but stars Nichols and Shatner consciously sabotaged the non-kiss takes so they could only air the kiss version.
oRMOo TIL that contrary to popular belief, it's not Jeff Bezos but Dennis Tito, who was the first billionaire Space traveller. Dennis went to Space in the year 2000. 21 years before Jeff. He is also the first space tourist to the International Space Station.
XAJ8 TIL Ben and Jerry’s has a real physical graveyard in Vermont for retired ice cream flavours
7rJW7 TIL that in 1985, Xi Jinping spent 2 weeks with a US family in Iowa in order to study US agriculture.
9YRXD TIL Isaac Asimov was an on-again, off- again member of MENSA. He drifted in and out of active membership due to some unpleasant members who were "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs,"