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TIL that Boeing's spacecraft are as good as their planes

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E1W5o TIL Winston Churchill gave his painting of the-Tower-of-Koutoubia-Mosque as a gift to President Roosevelt. It is now owned by the actor Bradd Pitt who purchased it for a world-record sum.
0dZOy TIL that the Disney movie "Big Hero 6" was based on a 90s Marvel Comic. In the original, Baymax was an android dragon with the brain of Hiro's dead father.
MedN7 TIL that Andrzej Sapkowski sold the rights to CD Projekt Red to create the Witcher video games for a lump sum of $9500
9YrGG TIL that in 1986 a man named John R. MacDougall jammed HBO on the East Coast for almost 5 minutes, affecting 8 million people, all to protest their rates for satellite dish owners
Y7jPP TIL on May 16, 1957, Yankees stars Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, and Yogi Berra attended a birthday party for Billy Martin at NYC’s Copacabana. A fight broke out when intoxicated bowlers yelled racial slurs at Sammy Davis Jr. One bowler, a Bronx deli owner, suffered a concussion and a broken jaw.