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TIL that one was the Heaven's Gate suicides was the brother of Nichelle Nichols, Lieutenant Uhura On 'Star Trek'.

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PjPZ TIL By law, no United States officer is allowed to outrank George Washington, who posthumously became a six-star general.
VMaNB TIL in the early 20th century there were baby alligators in the Boston Public Garden. They were fed live rats and mice by local residents
1aKPr TIL the weird dream talking in Twin Peaks was achieved by having the actors say the words backwards then ‘reversing’ them
wodaE TIL In 1969, Nixon appointed a Space Task Group which presented recommendations including building an Earth-orbiting space station, a lunar-orbiting space station, a base on the lunar surface, and a human expedition to Mars. They were too expensive, so Nixon directed NASA to build the Space Shuttle
X0Lpj TIL that Brazil's obsession with plastic surgery stems (for a large part) from the efforts of plastic surgeon Ivan Pitanguy to made it free. His "right to beauty"' campaign was influenced by his treatment of the many burned victims of the Niterói circus fire (17/12/1961).