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TIL Walt Disney Imagineering was hired to create the early concepts for Space Center Houston. It opened to the public in 1992, billed more as an interactive museum than a theme park and visitors could take backstage tours to see astronauts at work

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XEbP TIL elephants understand and conceptualize death in a deep and emotional way, and have a semi-ritualistic/religious practice to mourn the death of their fallen friends and family.
WkrXd TIL Tolar, NM has the distinction of being the only town in the USA to be bombed out of existence in World War II. Not that it was a large town at the time. The explosion from an accidental railroad disaster left a crater about 20-feet deep and 60-feet wide - the town was pretty much obliterated.
md5p TIL that San Marino holds a national holiday whenever their national football team scores a goal.
Z5gQ TIL that Mel Blanc, voice actor for Porky Pig, from Bugs Bunny, has “That’s all folks!” on his gravestone.
NnVN TIL that the man who wrote “The Internet is for Porn” also wrote “Let it Go.”