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TIL: Ronald Reagan signed an Execituve Order prohibiting assassinations.

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Wkvxo TIL NASA will launch a SpaceX rocket next summer in a test of planetary defense. The rocket will impact a near-earth asteroid in 2022 in an attempt to change its trajectory.
pYDgb TIL that the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb was inspired by a lamb actually following a girl named Mary to school
dgQr TIL Soviet Finswimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan once saved 20 people from a drowning trolleybus at the bottom of a 25 metres (80 ft) offshore at a depth of 10 metres (33 ft). He spent 45 days in a coma after this heroic act. Then he saved people from a burning building.
Q8G9 TIL that Oscar Wilde’s tomb was encased in glass in 2011, rendering it “kiss proof” after many lipsticked visitors left their marks.
WmYA TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.