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TIL that the last space shuttle flight was in 2011 by the orbital Atlantis. The NASA program lasted 30 years with 135 flights.

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GYEZ1 TIL that Dolly Parton was an uncredited producer on Buffy The Vampire Slayer and she was partially responsible for bringing it back to the small screen after the 1992 film bombed.
oErW TIL During WWII Unit 731 of Japan who were responsible for some of the most brutal experimentation on captives were secretly given immunity by the US in exchange for their data obtained through human experimentation.
X0pA8 TIL Audrey Hepburn's father was a Nazi
6Bxl TIL that in 2001, Portugal enacted a nationwide law decriminalizing all drugs, including cocaine and heroin. In 2009, the conservative Cato institute called the policy a “resounding success.”
oweE TIL there was an illegal crematorium disguised as a ceramics plant. It was discovered when a man calling in to complain about the smell said,“Don’t tell me they’re not burning bodies. I was at the ovens at Auschwitz.”