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TIL that American rockets are often equipped with a self-destruct system to protect people if the vehicle goes off course. Since 1958, 33 US orbital launch attempts have ended by self-destruction.

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Y777 TIL that Jobs and Wozniak sold 200 models of Apple I which carried a price tag of $666.66 because “that was just an easier way to type”
j6Pwv TIL Wonder Woman, & her Golden Lasso of Truth, was created by one of the inventors of the lie detector test and based her on his wife, and their polyamorous lover.
p8QNQ TIL in World War II, U.S. Navy ship accidentally got in proximity with the Japanese ship, Someone decided to throw potatoes in panic. Japanese thought they were grenades and they threw it back which resulted in a potato fight. While they were distracted, the U.S. successfully sunk the enemy ship.
QJVMM TIL Wilt Chamberlain claimed he slept with 20,000 women during his life time
v9Ax TIL Pierre Boulle, author of “Planet of the Apes” and “The Bridge over the River Kwai”, won an Oscar for the later movie adaptation. Not speaking English and not having actually written the screenplay, Boulle gave the shortest acceptance speech in Academy Award history, the single word “Merci”.