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TIL that India sent a spacecraft to Mars for $74 million - less than it cost to make the movie ‘Gravity’

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8a8MP It's long been known that Hawking's birthday, January 8, 1942, fell on the 300th anniversary of the death of another great science mind, Galileo Galilei. But the day of his death, in the early hours of March 14, 2018 at his home in Cambridge, England, happened to coincide with the birthday of yet another genius: Albert Einstein, born March 14, 1879.
9WNG TIL Burt Ward’s valuable Robin costume was stolen during a Q&A at Harvard by a gang of costumed henchmen lead by supervillian… Conan O'Brien.
0vEp TIL that the actor playing The Mountain in Game of Thrones Season 4, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, is only 25 years old.
n6Zb TIL Canada sterilized indigenous school girls till the mid 1990s
eXog TIL the last scene in the episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, “Papa Got a Brand New Excuse” was completely unscripted. The character was meant to shrug off his dad leaving, but Will got emotional thinking about his friends who grew up without a father and broke down in tears.