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TIL that journalist and feminist icon Gloria Steinem is the stepmother to Oscar-winning actor Christian Bale.

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4Yrb TIL during a Space Shuttle launch abort in 1984, leaking hydrogen was causing a fire invisible to human eyes. If the astronauts had evacuated according to the emergency procedure, they would have been incinerated by it.
Me7Ka TIL during the Great Depression people often made clothes out of feed sacks. Seeing this, distributors started to print their feed sacks with different colours and patterns to help people remain at least somewhat fashionable.
GYBNN TIL that writer Isaac Asimov and Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry died with six months of each other. Asimov helped saved Star Trek from cancellation by writing a fan letter to TV Guide saying it was a "fresh and intellectually challenging science fiction television show". His daughter was a fan.
44J5 TIL the fastest matter ever detected was the Oh-My-God particle, detected over Utah in 1991. It was going so fast that it had as much energy as a baseball travelling 60 MPH and is 50 times more energy than produced in the LHC
b9GN TIL that the Haskell opera house & Library straddles the border of the US and Canada. The audience sits in the US to watch a show on a stage which is actually in Canada. The front door is in the US and the books are in Canada.