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TIL In the 2002 movie "The Time Machine", by 2030, people have established a large Moon base, and ads are touting lunar resorts, which will be created by detonating 20-megaton hydrogen bombs to create huge spherical caverns

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VMDND TIL that the Disney film Tangled (2010) is one of the most expensive movies of all time, which is unusual for an animated film. This is often attributed to the complexity in animating Rapunzel’s hair, however others point to the copious reworking in its troubled 14-year development period.
YpWg7 TIL that two straight men got married to avoid paying higher taxes
9Kmr TIL White asparagus is the same as green asparagus except that it’s kept buried when growing so no photosynthesis occurs
7rGKb TIL that Henry Ford was awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle which was a medal given to foreigners who agreed with the Nazi's ideology.
LQDrm TIL about the fall of Alan Magee. A B-17 ball turret gunner in World War II, Magee fell more than 20,000 feet without a parachute when his plane was destroyed by flak. He smashed through the roof of a French railroad station, survived, and spent the rest of the war in a prison camp.