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TIL that Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to Fight aliens together. Reagan was also a Sci-fi fan and appointed many sci-fi writers to government think-tanks.

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KxPR TIL wind is essential for trees to reach maturity. The stress from wind allows trees to grow stronger, and without wind, a tree will eventually collapse under its own weight.
eQ5n TIL that historically speaking, liberal arts studies were defined as skills that a free person should know; such as, “participating in public debate, defending oneself in court, serving on juries, and most importantly, military service.”
9Yw4G “It’s not as silly a question as you might think,” says Michael Moore, a marine-mammal research specialist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. “It would take some extraordinary circumstances, but any mammal can get rabies.”
jeDE TIL Director Luc Besson started writing The Fifth Element as a novel when he was 16 years old. Twenty-two years later, it opened as the #1 movie in America.
xVbl7 TIL that most Americans wake up between 6-6:30am and that by 5:30am 20% of people are awake.