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TIL Carrot Top is the son of a NASA engineer

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7rXmb TIL The Invictus games for disabled Veterans was started by Prince Harry after he was pulled from Afghanistan and they put him on a flight with four unconscious soldiers missing limbs and wrapped in plastic. One holding a piece of shrapnel that had been removed from his head.
kR5E TIL: of the foldscope. A microscope that provides magnification from 140X to 2,000X. It is assembled from a punched sheet of cardstock, a spherical glass lens, a light emitting diode and a diffuser panel, along with a watch battery. It is designed to cost less than US$1 to build.
eMAn TIL One of the last procedures before a space shuttle launch is to remove the inflatable owls from the aircraft.
gKgD TIL crows recognize individual human faces and hold grudges.
wLRMY TIL 50 Cent tragically lost his mother when he was 8 years old. His mother, Sabrina Jackson, died in 1983 in a 'mysterious fire'. 50 Cent said in an interview, "Someone put something in her drink and turned the gas on."