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TIL That George Miller raised the money to make Mad Max by working as an ER doctor

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Ypdwx TIL The average number of stars we can see with the naked eye is around 10000. This number is only the 0.000004% of all stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
rRkMx TIL that scattering of human ashes at Disneyland and Disney World happens so frequently park employees have a special code to report it for cleanup.
Z8nyo TIL of the Tricuspid Valve Annuloplasty Ring which prevents children with faulty organs or heart problems from needing more than one surgery as they get older.
0571 [TIL] Four months after shooting American Sniper Chris Kyle dead, Eddie Routh confessed “I was just riding in the back seat of the truck, and nobody would talk to me. They were just taking me to the range, so I shot them. I feel bad about it, but they wouldn’t talk to me.”
rNXAw TIL about the Fallen Astronaut, a 3.5 in/8.9 cm aluminum sculpture. It is a stylized figure of an astronaut in a spacesuit, intended to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration. It was placed on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 15 in 1971