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TIL NASA was sold faulty rocket parts for almost 20 years. An Oregon-based company falsified aluminum certification tests for nearly two decades.

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5r7Q TIL that approximately 1/3 of people have jaws that pop or click when they are opened all the way.
0ddNM TIL that in 1976, George Washington was posthumously appointed to the grade of 'General of the Armies of the United States,' the highest rank possible, to ensure that he could never be outranked.
leZG TIL that speaking Kurdish in public was illegal in Turkey in the 90s
GAyV4 TIL that there are 3 territories today claimed to be Terra nullius (’No man’s land’): Bir Tawil (a strip of land between Egypt and Sudan), four pockets of land near the Danube due to the Croatia–Serbia border dispute, and parts of Antarctica.
NPrJ TIL Ronald Reagan won less than 60% of the popular vote in the 1984 general election despite winning nearly 98% of the electoral vote