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TIL that the first proposal for space travel in English history was made by Oliver Cromwell’s brother-in-law in the 17th century, who thought that we just needed to fly 20 miles above the Earth to be released from its magnetism and sail to other planets to trade with the inhabitants.

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0akj TIL in 2004 a dentist was charged after he made female patients unwittingly swallow his semen during visits to his clinic. He told them he was “going to put something in her mouth that would taste funny, but would stop the bleeding.”
o717 TIL George Lucas paid the entire $33 million production fee for Star Wars V himself, taking out a loan from the bank. He made his money back in three months, and Star Wars V went on to gross over half a billion dollars, making it the most successful independent film of all time.
BrrmK TIL Shelley Duvall from the Shining is struggling with mental illness
9YGmG TIL of the Order of Victory, the highest award in WWII for the Soviet Union. It has 19 recipients, with five non-Soviets awarded: Dwight D. Eisenhower (USA), Bernard Montgomery (UK), Michael I (Romania), Michał Rola-Żymierskim (Poland) and Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia)
kOPkE TIL Nativity scenes in Barcelona often traditionally contain one figure pooping off in the corner