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TIL NASA has their own SWAT team

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ne7bb TIL of Hampton, Florida - A city that annexed 1,260 feet of US 301 and used it to raise $211,328 earning it a reputation as a speed trap on a national level.
P4OL TIL when a Marvel comic book writer apologized to Samuel L. Jackson for basing Nick Fury on him in 2002, he said, “Fuck, no, man. Thanks for the 9 picture deal.”
84WZ TIL Charlotte Brontë wrote much of her early fiction in microscopic handwriting. One manuscript contains 4,000 words over 19 pages and is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand.
MKxK TIL in 2004 a black bear was found passed out on the lawn at a resort after consuming 36 cans of Rainier Beer, sampling but not drinking any of the Busch. A Fish and Wildlife agent was quoted as saying, “it definitely had a preference.”
x69bg TIL that one of the earliest hang gliders was invented in 1853 by George Cayley who created a slope-launched, piloted glider.