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TIL that the Moon actually has an atmosphere.

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4P5a TIL Bill Murray accepted his role in Ghostbusters only to finance a film which he had co-written. GB was the highest-grossing film of 1984, but Murray was so upset for the failure of the other film that he took 4 years off from acting to study philosophy and history at the Sorbonne, Paris.
Wk8kA TIL that no significant nutritional differences exist between foods prepared by conventional and microwave methods.
E1Mn0 TIL world-renowned behaviorist B.F. Skinner worked with the US military and General Mills to create “Pigeons in a Pelican,” which involved training kamikaze pigeons to pilot a missile by pecking at it.
4Xxpg TIL of the Tea-Horse-Road. During Imperial-era, the Chinese noticed that Tibetans prized tea so much, they would trade high-quality horses for tea-bricks. As they needed warhorses to fight nomads, the Chinese set up a government office to sell tea for Tibetan horses, creating the Tea-Horse Road.
rNY0W TIL second runway of Narita Airport was supposed to pass through Takao Shito’s land, but because of the legal problems, it now basically encircles it. Farming takes place amidst the roar of takeoff and the impacts of aircraft landings.