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TIL the best place to see rainbow is Hawaii
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TIL that in 1962, Operation Stargazer used a 12-1/2-inch reflecting telescope mounted on a high-altitude balloon, featuring gyroscopic stabilizing gear developed by MIT. This was the first mission to employ such technology for more accurate observations from the upper atmosphere.
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TIL- James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr in ‘68, escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, TN 6/10/77, with six other convicts. He was captured 3 days later.
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TIL there is a Worlds Ugliest Dog competion that has been held at the Sonoma-Marin fair in North CA since the 1970s
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TIL mud-dauber wasp nests can last for 20-30,000 years.
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TIL that Starbucks incurred massive losses and failed miserably trying to expand into Australia.