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TIL that NASA engineers had issues with the honey comb insulation of the Saturn V rocket, so they ended up hiring local surfers, who had experience in working with the material, to apply it to the rocket.

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78YWM TIL that Thailand's national dish "Pad Thai" is actually a modern creation invented to combat famine and create nationalism in the 1930s because it created double the volume of food as from the same amount of rice grains as boiled rice.
1KvP Til Karen Zerby the leader of The Church of God/Family International Practiced and promoted Pedophilia. Her own son (Ricky Rodriguez) was used as a model in a book teaching how to have sex with children. He eventually left the church and Murdered one of his abusers and committed suicide.
GAww1 TIL that in 1926, Nikola Tesla predicted modern cell phones. Tesla described a future "when wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth" in a way that allows humans "to communicate with one another instantly irrespective of distance" with the clarity of a face-to-face meeting using a device.
gr5jA TIL there was a famous Japanese game show in which diehard baseball fan contestants were locked individually in small rooms for an entire baseball season: if their favorite team won each night they got dinner for the evening, if their team lost the lights would be turned out until the next win.
5ADB TIL Farrah Gray is the youngest person to have a Wall Street office and is estimated to be worth 20 million dollars. At 13 years old he founded Farr-Out Food which in a period of one year had received food orders of over 1.5 million dollars making him a millionaire at 14.