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TIL George Takei spent two years of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp

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BrwBb TIL a South African man plans to tow an iceberg from Antarctica to provide drinking water to 4 million people. After facing droughts limiting water usage, the 125 million ton, 70 story tall iceberg would supply 20% of Cape Town’s water needs for a year.
69BLY TIL that only 11 states served Coors in 1975, and wasn’t available in all 50 until 1991
yQaYv TIL that for 137 years, Barcelona's Sagrada Familia was being constructed illegally. It only got its building permit in 2019 when authorities found out it didn't have one in 2016.
Yend TIL that “Nacho Libre” was based upon a Catholic priest turned luchador who called himself “Fray Tormenta” (Friar Storm); he supported an orphanage for 23 years with his second career.
R71w8 TIL I learned of the Fermi paradox, which states that if there was intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, they should have visited us by now