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TIL Elon Musk explicitly wrote into SpaceX’s contract with Orbital Outfitters that the that the company’s new spacesuits must look “badass”.

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X6ak TIL after the “Cars” and “Planes” franchises, Disney is considering creating a neverending series with other marketable vehicles like “Boats”, “Trains” and more…
LkLod TIL Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald was adamantly opposed to state regulation of firearms even though many in his own party worried about the proliferation of cheap, easily concealable handguns. He believed the right to carry weapons was an important component of British liberty
x61M5 TIL the Iroquois Confederacy had just ~12,000 people at the apex of its power (ca. 1700).
69oMm TIL of the Pierce Arrow armoured anti aircraft lorry deployed by the Royal Marine Artillery in the First World War. Used from 1915 to 1917, it shot down over twenty enemy aircraft, having take out the first of these within two days of deployment.
yQjv TIL that in order to get around the constitutional limits on copyright the MPAA president proposed to make it last “forever minus one day”