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TIL that the Opportunity rover is still conducting scientific operations after 13 years despite an original mission lifetime of only 90 days

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Jyx1 TIL an eight-year-old Bill Paxton was in the crowd the day John F. Kennedy died, and can be clearly seen in several photographs as he was sitting on the shoulders of an African-American man he’d just met.
QAWa TIL Academy Award winning composer John Williams (Star Wars, E.T., Indiana Jones) is the father of Toto (“Africa”) frontman Joseph Williams.
6Lbl TIL: The New Zealand government agreed to remove the right of workers to organise trade unions in the film production industry, and to give money to big budget films made in New Zealand in return for Warner Bros making The Hobbit films in New Zealand.
Wk5wA TIL the massive cannons used by the Ottomans to besiege and capture Constantinople in 1453 were again bought out for a bombardment against the Royal Navy, almost 400 years later, in 1807
xV8n0 TIL that the majority of Americans teenagers are still virgins by the time they hit eighteen, and the number using birth control has increased over time.