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TIL the UK’s military satellite family is called Skynet.

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GYYyg TIL there is a small titanium vault inside of Mount Rushmore describing the origins of the monument and some history on the United States
N7MWQ TIL of Furies of Calderon, a bestselling fantasy novel based on both Pokémon and the Roman empire that was written to prove that any good writer can make a book about not one, but two terrible ideas.
VMrLB TIL Peter Jackson originally pitched adapting the Lord of the Rings into two movies. That was changed by Bob Shaye, head of New Line who asked “Why would you do two films when there’s three books? Why wouldn’t you do three films?”
0d8wM TIL that North and South Korea share only one holiday: August 15, the day in 1945 when Korea became independent from Japan after 35 years as a colony.
0YY1 TIL that Elon Musk believes that the United States is “[inarguably] the greatest country that has ever existed on Earth”, describing it as “the greatest force for good of any country that’s ever been” and believes outright that there “would not be democracy in the world if not for the United States”