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TIL the Galileo mission may have accidentally triggered a nuclear explosion on Jupiter

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WkmBB TIL that in the 1960s the CIA paid climbers to put nuclear powered spy devices in the Himalayas to monitor Chinese nuclear weapons tests. Some of the devices were left unattended and were subsequently lost.
1aMjO TIL In the famous upside down kiss scene from Sam Raimi's Spiderman (2002) Toby Maguire almost drowned. The large droplets of water kept running into his upside down nose and he couldn't breathe through his mouth because it was in Kirsten Dunst's mouth.
PYmGL TIL In 1895, workers finished the largest achromatic refractor that would ever be created: the Yerkes telescope. George Ellery Hale, an American astronomer, convinced the Chicago tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes to finance the telescope
KOEjG TIL that Aretha Franklin insisted on being paid for gigs up front and in cash, and would often keep the cash on stage with her in her handbag
88n8 TIL after Trent Reznor found out his CD was $30 in Australia, he said “Steal it. Steal, steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealing. Because one way or another these motherfuckers will get it through their head that they’re ripping people off and that’s not right.”