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TIL This day in 1958 Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an act that creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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BrGlD TIL that the term “Green Thumb” comes from the fact that algae growing on the outside of earthenware pots will stain a person's thumb (and fingers) if he or she handles enough pots. Hence, a person who is always working with flowerpots has a green thumb

vPGDD TIL the novel "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" (1978) by Alan Dean Foster was originally written as a low-budget sequel to "Star Wars" (1977) in the event that film would financially fail. Instead, after the film's success, the novel became among the first works in the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

gK7L TIL 14-year old Laurence Fishburne lied about his age to play a 17 year old soldier in Apocalypse Now. Filming took so long that Fishburne was actually 17 years old when shooting wrapped.

XEmK8 TIL of “The Custom of the Sea,” an old tradition among sailors where in dire circumstances, such as being stranded at sea and on the verge of starvation, the remaining sailors would all draw straws and whoever drew the shortest would then be killed and eaten to ensure the survival of the others.

QNENd TIL There is a controversial theory that the Phoenicians discovered the Americas over 1000 years before Leif Erikson in 1st millennium BC