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TIL In 2020, NASA will allow tourists to visit the International Space Station for $35,000 a night. Private astronauts would be permitted to travel to the ISS for up to 30 days.

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LQLXZ TIL the black bears in California's San Gabriel Valley were shipped here from Yellowstone in the 1930s, when they were retired from entertaining visitors by eating garbage in arenas.
8eN7a TIL Liam Neeson's wife died on a bunny slope while taking a ski lesson at Mt. Tremblant in Quebec
k0xd TIL approximately 4% of the US population is arrested every year.
GAvj7 TIL coffee beans are actually seeds from a fruit called the 'Coffee Cherry'.
ANDPn TIL about Perpetual bonds, which, as the name implies, have no maturity date and pay interest forever. One of the oldest was issued by the Dutch water board on May 15, 1648, and is now in the possession of Yale University. The annual interest payment is €11.35 as of 2004.