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TIL Kevin Smith’s Dogma is unavailable to stream or purchase digitally and is out of print on home media.

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kO7g5 TIL in an experiment, an American Cockroach registered a record speed of 5.4 km/h (3.4 mph), about 50 body lengths per second, which would be comparable to a human running at 330 km/h (210 mph).
l7pKa TIL that the Russian Soyuz rocket, which has been in service since 1963 and has a success rate of 98%, begins its ignition process by firing wooden sticks inside the combustion chamber. While not quite as simple, it's essentially huge wooden matches and it's extremely reliable.
9YAep TIL that in an episode of star trek TNG aired in 1989 Picard states that Fermat's last theorem would still be unsolved 700 years in the future. Picard was wrong. The theorem was solved in 1995.
7Nmb TIL 13 Billion Keurig K-cups went into landfills in 2014, the cups are NOT recyclable or biodegradable
Wk6BB TIL a German woman and her son on Christmas Eve 1944 fed and sheltered 3 American and 4 German soldiers in her small cabin in the Huertgen forest. Both sides disarmed themselves for that night, and the next morning the Germans gave their adversaries a compass and directions before leaving.