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TIL the space shuttle was originally designed to collect Soviet satellites and return them to the USA for reverse engineering

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ZLY4 TIL Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man & The Fly, he purposely left his name off out the advertisements so people didn’t think they were comedies.
0nb5 TIL a 12 year old boy who saw his own father murdered by a family friend, avenged the death of his father by killing the alleged murderer in a revenge attack he had planned for 12 years. He cut him into 12 pieces, one each for the years of wait.
g1P7 TIL that the first civilzation (Sumerians) performed math in units of 60, which is why we measure time in 60 second/minute intervals.
JEJl TIL that, since 1950, acceptance of an Academy Award statuette requires that neither winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for US$1. If a winner refuses to agree to this stipulation, then the Academy keeps the statuette.
woDYo Til that after putting down a rebellion led by his brother John lackland, Richard the lionheart forgave John by saying that he was “a child who has had evil counsellors" John was 27 years old