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TIL In honor of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the Soviet Union named a crater on Venus after Christa McAuliffe, who was supposed to be the first teacher in space but died in the disaster.

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AD1Nl TIL children's YouTube celebrity Blippi was once a self proclaimed shock comedian who made a "Harlem Shake" video where he explosively defecated on his friends face. He has used DMCA takedowns to try and erase it from the internet.
drDr TIL that the JFK assassination conspiracy theory has been described by subsequent Congress investigations as “highly probable”
xL8w TIL the Marines use a non-lethal heat beam to ward off people “causing a feeling similar to being on fire”
bNKp TIL Dave Chapelle was offered the role of Bubba in Forrest Gump, however turned down the part as he considered it “demeaning” and thought the movie would flop.
v1V5x TIL Jim Carrey asked Nicolas Cage to co-star with him in 'Dumb and Dumber', however; Cage wanted to work on a smaller film called 'Leaving Las Vegas'. In 1996, Nicolas Cage won an Academy Award for Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas.