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TIL there is a Danish rocketry club currently aiming to become the first amateur group to launch a person into space.

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XENaX TIL Brad Fiedel, who wrote the theme for The Terminator, said that the much disputed/odd time signature (13/8 or 12/8) present in the song was due to a timing error in the synths and sequencer loops which were synced by hand.
BY7D TIL that life in Puritan New England was so hard that children who were abducted by Native Americans often refused to come back
AD7Ma TIL about Resignation Syndrome, an illness where children who have experienced great trauma and uncertainty slip into a coma-like state for months or years at a time.
jJAR TIL Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47, is still alive at the ripe old age of 93
ZpAep TIL that Rockstar Games felt that the Skatt Brothers song "Walk the Night" was so essential to GTA IV's soundtrack that they hired a private investigator to fly to Orem, Utah and track down the lead singer Sean Delaney's surviving relatives (he died in 2003) to secure the rights of the song.