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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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9aG7 TIL that it was common for prisoners in the Soviet Union to tattoo Marx, Lenin, and Engles over their vital organs, because the firing squads could not shoot images of the USSR’s founding fathers.
oRNpK TIL the smallest house in Great Britain was once owned by a man called Robert Jones who rented it to a man called Robert Jones.
44og TIL Richard Dean Anderson received a special award by the Air Force rarely given to civilians in order to thank him and the other people behind Stargate SG-1 for their very positive portrayal of that organization. Anderson was declared an honorary Air Force brigadier general.
0wkxR TIL in 1967, the Nigerian Civil War was halted for 48 hours so that both sides could watch Pelé play in Lagos.
PYbJe TIL that USSR filmed their own version of Sherlock Holmes. It was so successful, that main actor - Vasily Levanov, was honored with a British order of chivalry.