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TIL a that there are a group of travelling gutter punks called "crusties" that make NYC's East Village their home during the warm months.

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YdRP TIL of NASA’s sound suppression system which soaks the launch pad with 300,000 gallons of water, reducing acoustical levels within the orbiter payload bay to about 142 decibels.
XEr4R TIL that from 1953 to 1964, the CIA conducted completely uncontrolled tests involving drugging people who didn't know they were being drugged, then following and watching them without intervening.
BrjxD TIL in 35th fastest supercomputer in the world in 2010 was The Condor Cluster built by the US Air Force from over 1700 PS3s linked together running Linux
m1eDP TIL Roman Polanski's victim forgave him. In March 2023, Geimer and her husband met with Polanski and his wife Seigner for a French magazine cover interview. Geimer states in the interview: "Let me be very clear: what happened with Polanski was never a big problem for me."
8bRV TIL that Ruby Bridges, the first black child to attend a white school in the south, attended class by herself because parents of white students would not let them learn with her, and she ate only food she brought from home because a woman repeatedly threatened to poison her