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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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YdMv TIL in 1976 a novel about “a lonely librarian in northern Ontario who enters into a sexual relationship with a bear” won the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award
5YX5k TIL of Jacob H. Smith, an American officer who launched a notorious attack during the Filipino-American War which killed as many as 50,000 civilians. During the attack - for which he was court-martialed - Smith was heard yelling "kill everyone over the age of ten."
KYA64 TIL early movie projectors utilized primitive arc lights which were very bright but had a tendency to flicker, especially if they were not properly maintained. It is because of this flickering that movies came to be called "flicks".
VBAGB TIL that the term “oxymoron” means “brightly stupid” and is therefore an oxymoron having the same meaning as “sophomore”
dbdE TIL that Bea Arthur (Dorothy from The Golden Girls) was a truck-driving Marine in World War II, before finding fame as an actress and singer.