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TIL when the NEAR Shoemaker satellite landed on asteroid Eros in 2001, Gregory Nemitz sued NASA for parking on his property (in parking space #29) at a rate of 20¢/year

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mYMx TIL: Hattie McDaniel, who won an Oscar playing Mammy in Gone With The Wind, was criticized in the black community for playing racial stereotypes. Her response: “Why should I complain about making $700 a week playing a maid? If I didn’t, I’d be making $7 a week being one.”
woEeY TIL Audrey Hepburn's mother met Hitler and wrote favorable articles about him for the British Union of Fascists
M70G8 TIL that "Clint Eastwood" is an anagram of "Old West Action".
ldD5 TIL of Wim Hof, who climbed Mount Everest in his shorts, resisted altitude sickness, completed a marathon in the Namibian Desert with no water and proven – under a laboratory setting – that he’s able to influence his autonomic nervous system and immune system at will.
OGDlg TIL Tetris helps cope with trauma