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TIL Salesmen at a insurance Company were rewarded with an Orgy

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AkPa TIL That Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes had, in his long lifetime, shaken hands with John Quincy Adams (b. 1767) and John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
VMO7k TIL that scientists developed a plan to boost Egypt's hydroelectric capacity by using 200+ atom bombs to carve a canal between the Qattara Depression and the Mediterranean to create a vast inland sea. The proposal was rejected
nEa7 TIL There is a large thunderstorm named Hector that forms almost everyday in the same spot.
R5pw8 TIL that Yakov Novichenko was a Soviet officer who saved Kim Il Sung from an assassination attempt in 1946 and thus became the only non-Korean to develop a cult of personality in North Korea.
DVVr TIL the U.S. is running out of Plutonium-238, which is necessary for space missions because only nuclear power can provide reliable energy so far from the sun for such an extended period of time