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TIL that the first privately owned Spaceport ever is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2013 and is in New Mexico.

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R6Zj TIL that movable type capital letters were stored in a separate drawer or case from the regular letters. The capital letters in the “upper case” and the others in the “lower case” and are hence called so.
JYlpm TIL that movie sets call clothespins C-47 for Tax purposes
LQO4v TIL that in the UK the Television Network have to work together with the Power Authority to make sure the power grid can handle the sudden influx of electricity demand during commercial breaks because people use these breaks to make tea
aw6VZ TIL in 2014, a stalker trespassed on Keanu Reeves' home. Keanu calmly talked to the stalker and called the police, who arrived and arrested her. Three days later, a second stalker made her way into his home, took a shower in his bathroom and swam naked in his pool.
JYOrV TIL that "Star Wars" creator George Lucas personally funded "Jurassic Park" paleontologist Jack Horner's "Build a Dinosaur" (a.k.a "chickenosaurus") project, a bid to "reverse genetically engineer a living dinosaur using chicken DNA".