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TIL that 80% of the Tor Project’s budget comes from the US Government

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D1p7g TIL about Jonathan, a turtoise who was hatched in the 1830’s and is still alive today
5v09 TIL that a carrot farmer trying to cut back food waste (over half of carrots produced are too ugly for grocery shelves) carved & created the first batch of ‘baby carrots’ using a green bean cutter. 30 years later, these carrots account for 70 percent of all carrot sales
94Qr TIL NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used to run a female beauty pageant, the winner of which was crowned ‘Miss Guided Missile’
JWXV TIL a man won a lawsuit against a Murdoch paper because, although he did have a WWII S&M prison camp sex orgy, he did not have a NAZI-themed WWII S&M prison camp sex orgy as they claimed.
wL0P8 TIL British abstract artist & architect Victor Pasmore designed the brutalist Apollo Pavilion for the Sunny Blunts housing estate. It became heavily vandalised & was so hated by the residents that they campaigned & nearly succeeded in having it demolished. It is now protected as a listed monument.