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TIL In 1988, President Reagan set ambitious goals for a space comeback by committing to a manned flight to Mars around the year 2000 and to continue exploration of the moon

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YpGP7 TIL the directors of Airplane! auditioned numerous voice actors for the opening red zone/white zone scene, disliking all of them. They ended up tracking down the married couple who originally recorded the announcements that were used at LAX in 1980. Their voices are in the finished film.
Br4YK TIL that Pizza Hut had plans to project their logo onto the Moon
YDYW TIL in the United States as many as 3.5 million people experience homelessness in a given year (1% of the entire US population or 10% of its poor). 23% are families with children - the fastest growing segment.
VBB6p TIL that Janet Jackson has a tattoo of Mickey Mouse...receiving oral sex from Minnie Mouse (See tattoo #4).
mxB6v TIL The original Macintosh computers were sold with 9" screens that were 72 pixels per inch. This size was chosen because their printer would print at 144 ppi, exactly double the screen. This way the printed text and the screen text would end up being exactly the same size.