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TIL that India’s Mars mission cost less than the movie “Gravity.”

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ADQOl TIL that the Indian Government banned the use of Dolphins for commercial entertainment, calling them ‘non-human persons’, and declaring that it would be morally unacceptable to capture them for entertainment.
N7bb6 TIL FDR's White House housekeeper, Henrietta Nesbitt, was a legendarily awful cook. “Of course Henrietta did not personally do the cooking,” wrote a former WH maid, “but she stood over the cooks, making sure that each dish was overcooked or undercooked or ruined one way or another.”
KY8RJ TIL that Apples first CEO Michael Scott went on to become an expert on coloured gemstones. Micheal has even written a book on them. He has also assembled a private collection that he exhibited at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California.
0dmPN TIL Giovanni Villani's chronicle documenting the history of Italy from ancient times until his contemporary 14th century ominously ends mid sentence as the author was describing the effects of the black death. The author himself also died of the plague
8aYG8 TIL about Chittorgarh, a ~700 acre mountaintop fortress in Rajasthan, India, built in the 700's AD and undefeated for almost 600 years