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TIL: The ‘Mad Men’ Writers Are Working on a Show About NASA in the '60s

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Kd59 TIL Neil Young said “Piracy is the new radio. That’s how music gets around”
rN4m0 TIL That Hanns Scharff, One of the most succesful German Luftwaffe interrogators of WW2 became a world-renowned mosaic artist after the war, going on to create the 15 foot mosaics telling the story of Cinderella in the Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World.
4kvg TIL that only one man, Sulla, has ever lead successful military campaigns against both Athens and Rome.
xVBeg TIL the word "vodka" comes from the Slavic word for water.
R78k1 Today I learned that the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was so loud it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away, travelled around the world four times, and was clearly heard 3,000 miles away.