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TIL NASA will text you whenever the International Space Station passes overhead

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wowjW TIL in 1929 in the first Academy Awards four films were nominated for best cinematography and George Barnes was cinematographer for three of them. He lost to the fourth film (Sunrise).
9gD TIL Laser propelled flying saucers known as “Lightcraft” have been successfully tested by the US Army since 1999.
eepD TIL that Albert Einstein worked as an electrician on the Oktoberfest 1896.
epNB4 TIL the Emperor Tiberius once tortured a man by ordering his skin scoured with a big fish intended as a gift, then with a crab also intended as a gift after the man accidentally mentioned it whilst being tortured
jlEp TIL President Nixon, after many years of refusing to release his tax returns for review, said “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.” After the investigation, he was forced to pay $465,000 in back taxes he owed.