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TIL the creative director of the NASA Voyager Golden Record project, Ann Druyan, recorded her brain waves in 1977 when she fell in love with Carl Sagan to be sent into interstellar space with the Voyager Spacecrafts

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7DDp TIL Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) was required to be accompanied by crewmembers who wore high-visibility vests while in the forests of the Pacific Northwest filming scenes set on Endor, so as not to be mistaken for Bigfoot and shot.
VBGo8 TIL: Butt plugs were invented in the 1890s to cure insanity. Dr. Young's Ideal Rectal Dilators came in sets of four varying in diameter from half an inch to 4 inches. Dr. Young admitted that some patients panicked at the sight of the devices.
MbD8 TIL that refining a 42 gallon barrel of crude oil yields 20gal gasoline, 7gal diesel, and 17gal of petroleum byproducts such as propane, ammonia and plastic material, totaling 44 gallons; a net gain of 2 gallons.
Egao TIL there are two Jews left in Afghanistan, they both hate one another and therefore each have their own private synagogue.
Ood5R TIL until his death in 2020, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek displayed a C$49,000 bounced check on the wall of his house for his hosting duties on the 1981-82 Canadian-produced game show Pitfall, as a reminder of how his fellow Canadians did him dirty