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TIL the story that NASA spent $1 million on a space pen while the soviets simply used a pencil is false. The pen was developed by a private company without any taxpayer dollars and NASA simply became a client afterwards.

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px4b TIL Alaska has more coastline than the rest of the United States combined
JgJk TIL There is a movie about a murderous car tire named Robert, and the entire movie is the tire rolling around, killing people and blowing things up.
wLXx7 TIL that the U.S. lets 141 trillion calories of food go to waste each year
69brl TIL about the rare phenomenon of an "en caul" birth, where a baby is born still enclosed within the amniotic sac. Unlike typical births, where the sac breaks before delivery, in these cases, the baby emerges in a transparent bubble-like membrane. This occurrence is less than 1 in 80,000 births
xVOGk TIL: In 2017, the CIA released over 470,000 files that were on Osama Bin Laden's hard drive to the public with the exception of copyright material and some porn. It was found he had Final Fantasy 7, Ice Age, and Resident Evil along with several BBC and CNN documentaries on him.