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TIL there's a Christmas movie titled 'A Message from Mars' that was released in... 1913

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PYGG TIL that children of lower-educated parents more successfully escape from refrigerators than children of higher-educated parents
Le4V TIL that in 1919, Eisenhower and the Army tried to drive across the country. They barely made it, so Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System when he became President.
QNXM TIL that the recipe for Greek fire, an ancient incendiary weapon that would burn on water, has not been determined to this day.
epPeJ TIL That Eisenhower's Secretary of Agriculture would also become 13th President of the LDS Church, a position Mormon's believe makes one a prophet who can receive new revelation from God
eJWg TIL Nikola Tesla created the first logic gate in 1898 when he created the first remote controlled vehicle, over 50 years before Walther Bothe won the Nobel Peace Prize for it. He reportedly told onlookers multiple times it was simple science beforehand so that they would not think it witchcraft.