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TIL that Big Bird was originally suggested as one of the candidates to go aboard the Challenger shuttle.

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ADr0g TIL the Summer Olympics have only been cancelled three times since the beginning of the 20th century and all three because of war.
6EJ47 TIL one of the oldest cinematic universes is the Universal Monsters series, which featured Dracula, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Wolf Man, and a recurring cast of characters from 1931 to 1951
1LOd TIL The crawler transport, used by NASA to move their spacecraft to the launch sites, gets about 42 ft per gallon of diesel.
dOod TIL In the late 19th Century a plain, thin, red or black ribbon choker had ties to prostitution, as seen in Manet’s painting Olympia
5raQ TIL an aboriginal artist only discovered that one of his designs had been used on the Australian $1 note when someone brought a wad of cash to his village in 1966. He was compensated with a medallion, a fishing tackle box and $1,000.