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TIL Space Center Houston offers Astronaut Days where visitors can meet an astronaut, train like an astronaut, have breakfast with an astronaut. There is also the “All-American Meal,” modeled after the meal served on also S-135, the final shuttle mission

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x64gw TIL that Giovanni da Montecorvino was a 13th-century catholic missionary who, on orders of the pope, went on a journey to mongol-ruled China. There he translated the Bible into Mongolian, converted about 6000 people and was appointed "archbishop of Beijing" by the pope.
GADRJ TIL In 1995, 23 states had passed congressional term limits, limiting the amount of time their congressman can serve in office.
BrE1r TIL in Washinton State in 1995 an irate deer hunter shot down a helicopter with an arrow.
Av8o TIL movies prospered without popcorn until the Great Depression, when theater owners scrambled to make up for reduced ticket prices by turning to “audible edibles.” From 1934 to 1940, the nation’s annual popcorn harvest grew from 5 million to 100 million pounds.
Z8pPR TIL that when a production of Pygmalion had changed the ending, the man responsible for the change told Shaw "My ending makes money; you ought to be grateful," to which Shaw replied, "Your ending is damnable; you ought to be shot."