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TIL: There is a distinct advantage for drones operating in space: the ability to hide in plain sight among the scattered debris in orbit.

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VkxB TIL that Steven Spielberg’s top choice for Eddie Valiant in ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ was Bill Murray but they were unable to contact him since he has no agent. When Murray later read about this he screamed at the top of his lungs as he would have definitely accepted the part.
VBJND TIL that Willie Littlechild, the former Grand Chief of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations, attended a residential indigenous school and was the first “status Indian”to get a law degree in Alberta.
0dmW1 TIL in 2020 Cambridge University Library announced that two notebooks written by Charles Darwin, "worth many millions of pounds", had been missing for 20 years & had likely been stolen. One of the notebooks contains Darwin's famous Tree of Life sketch that explores the relationship between species.
KOlRE TIL that Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin was buried by reporters acting as pallbearers. No one aside from them showed up for the funeral.
4XbNo TIL there is a Live Oak Society composed entirely of live oak trees. The current president of the Live Oak Society is the Seven Sisters Oak, and is at least 500 years old.