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TIL that each Oscar Award loser receives a consolation bag of goodies. This year’s “goodie bag” was worth $48,000.

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KOmGJ TIL the period 1955-1972, the development of nuclear rocket engines in the USA began with the "Rover" project. The first experimental nuclear engine was named "KIWI" and experiments were performed on it until 1964. They constructed a compact nuclear reactor with U235 carbide in a graphite housing.
BggJK TIL of "ninja rocks," shards of spark plug ceramics. Harder than tempered glass, when thrown at car side windows they can easily cause those windows to shatter.
167eP TIL skilled sheepdogs sell for $30,000 or more.
loRP7 TIL that the first message ever sent over the internet was “LO” in 1969. A programmer at UCLA attempted to send each letter of the word “LOGIN” to the Stanford Research institute, but the machine crashed after the first two.
Lk50d TIL that the Soviet Union successfully landed 10 probes on the surface of Venus between the years 1961 and 1984. In spite of the short life spans of the Venera landers due to the extreme surface conditions, several of the landers were still successful in transmitting imagery from the surface.