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TIL that scientists are working on a nuclear fusion rocket which could reach Mars in 30 days.

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OKG4 TIL after winning the 1962 European Cup, Benfica coach Béla Guttmann asked for a pay rise. When denied, he allegedly cursed the club and said: “Not in a hundred years from now will Benfica ever win a European Cup”. They have since reached 8 European Cup finals and lost all of them.
RQJ1 TIL in Sami mythology it was believed that the northern lights were the blood of warriors who were fighting in valhalla.
6jK7 TIL Marvel pays Stan Lee $1 million a year for life just for being Stan Lee
BMeK TIL some anthropologists believe that beer was responsible for the rise of human civilization.
vxKK TIL Voltaire never wrote “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” - Evelyn Beatrice Hall wrote the famous sentence in Friends of Voltiere in 1906