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TIL dc comics created a super villain named “snowflame” who needs cocaine to function

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4XEBN TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower said "The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants...It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals...We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people."
66VZ TIL that during his trial for beastiality, Paul Lovell was asked why he decided to have sex with a sheep. He said he turned his attention to the sheep after a cow rejected his advances for felatio. The jury erupted in laughter.
166dr TIL Jim Henson was an early pioneer in digital sets and computer-created puppets.
6jBJ TIL in 2001 it cost $100million to sequence a genome - now it costs $1000
9YZnG TIL the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements. Buzz Aldrin asked for a moment of silence while he was on the moon and had his own communion. NASA then kept it a secret due to activist Madalyn O'Hair.