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TIL Mars makes 2 billion M&Ms every 8 hours.

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mXAM TIL that in 1978 a Russian scientist was accidentally shot through the head by particle accelerator. He lived, but the shot side of this face is now paralyzed and does not age.
EgKxP TIL a 22-year-old high school JV girls basketball coach in Virginia lost her job after she played in a game by posing as a 13-year-old on the team who was out of town. Upon being reported, the team forfeited the game and the players (both JV & varsity) voted to cancel the rest of their seasons.
R5W88 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
mWKR TIL that this July we will get to see the first ever detailed images of Pluto.
WKGY TIL that Aubrey Plaza (Parks & Rec, Scott Pilgrim vs The World) suffered a stroke leaving her paralyzed and aphasic (unable to speak) in 2004