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TIL Connecticut has an official State Troubadour who "functions as an ambassador of music and song and promotes cultural literacy among Connecticut citizens"

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KAQJ TIL Science fiction author Orson Scott Card called Serenity “the best science fiction film ever”, further stating “If Ender’s Game can’t be this kind of movie, and this good a movie, then I want it never to be made. I’d rather just watch Serenity again.”
VMY8m TIL The band Fall Out Boy apologized to college football fans after ESPN played their song “Centuries” 45 times during all three games of the 2014 College Football Playoffs.
rNpVo TIL of Ada Blackjack, the only survivor of the 1921 Wrangel Island Expedition when in Canada tried to claim the island for itself.
MYKb TIL The Italian military will start growing marijuana
JYYEQ The US Air Force’s scientific research wing is giving Lockheed Martin $26.3 million “for the design, development, and production of a high power (tens of kilowatts) fiber laser,” which it expects to start testing on a tactical fighter jet in four years.