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TIL in the 1952 Texas gubernatorial election, Allan Shivers went against... Allan Shivers

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XEeXD TIL about The Delancey Street Foundation a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco that provides residential rehabilitation services and vocational training for substance abusers and convicted criminals. You earn your GED and are taught 3 marketable skills. It has a 90% success rate
KKXa TIL During the filming of Air Force One, Harrison Ford insisted on being punched in the face to add to the physicality of the scenes. Scenes would have to be delayed to wait for the swelling to subside.
eJ75 TIL the line from The Martian, “I’m going to have to science the shit out of this” isn’t translatable into several other languages. In the French translation: “I’ll have to shit out a lot of science to get out of this.” In Russian, “Only science can pull me out of this shit”.
rAk0 TIL The NVA said they could smell the American soldiers due to Marijuana usage, not eating indigenous foods of Vietnam and because they used scented soaps.
dDW68 TIL for more than 1000 miles of the Trans-Australian Railway there no natural water sources. When the line was first built in 1907 half of a trains load had to be water for the steam engines.