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TIL If you don’t pay child support in Texas you won’t be able to renew your hunting/fishing licence

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rRekM TIL Robert Reed hated playing Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch, considering the show to be beneath his talents as a Shakespearean actor
j6XLn TIL that in 1965, a fire broke out in a Titan II ICBM silo, killing 53 workers. In 1980, this same missile exploded while in its new silo, blowing the 740 ton silo door off and ejecting the missle and its 9 megaton nuclear warhead
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4koOa TIL there was a deadlier martime disaster than the Titanic: the Sultana. Carrying 6 times the passengers than it was alotted, the Sultana sank on the Mississippi river killing over 1,100 Union Soldiers. The tragedy did not receive much attention as it was days after the assassination of Lincoln.
nWBk7 TIL In 1989, when HDTV first came onto the Japanese market, the cost of an HDTV and HDTV Receiver which was required to pick up HD satellite television signals was $12,800 or $32,160 in 2024 money.