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TIL the Minnesota Vikings’ new stadium cost more than a NASA mission to Pluto.

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rN6kW TIL at 84 years old, Harvard professor Tom Lehrer was approached by rapper 2 Chainz to sample his 60-year-old song. Lehrer granted permission, saying, ' I grant you permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2 ? '
VMNlk TIL in World War II, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day. Americans got 22.
jMGE TIL of Heinz Drossel, a German Lieutentant during WWII that refused to join the Nazi Party. He came upon a woman on a bridge who attempted to jump as soon as she saw his uniform, as she was Jewish. He stopped her and assisted her in escaping to safety. After the war, he married her.
bJZ9 TIL Jules Verne wrote the novel “Paris in the Twentieth Century” back in 1863 and described a world of glass skyscrapers, high-speed trains, gas-powered automobiles, calculators, and a worldwide communications network.
OJM6 TIL the Liters of Light project uses no electricity to illuminate windowless homes in and beyond the Philippines - their solution uses a recycled plastic bottle with some water and bleach yet provides the equivalent output of a 60-watt bulb