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TIL that Arches National Park in Utah has a rock column known as The Phallus

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a8eDL TIL Christa McAuliffe, who was the teacher who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger, was 1 of 11,000 applicants in NASA's search to find an "ordinary person" to put their first civilian in space. She later remarked, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat. Just get on."
jNQgM TIL J.R.R. Tolkien sold the film rights to Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit in 1969 for £100000 and 7.5% of the gross revenue. His estate ended up suing New Line Cinema for £75 million in 2008
JJrV TIL that in a simulated, long-term, multinational space mission, Russian Cosmonauts sexually assaulted women, routinely broke into fist-fights.
VMbAG TIL that oranges from Florida are artificially dyed to look good to shoppers because they are still green when ripe
9wOWm TIL Peter Higg's original paper predicting the existence of the Higgs Boson was originally rejected by a scientific journal for being "of no obvious relevance to physics"