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m1mLp TIL of Unjust Demands Made by France on Haiti After Winning Independence: Forced to pay 150 million francs, the "Independence Debt" hindered Haiti's economy & development, stifling growth and contributing to ongoing challenges the nation faces today.
aE5Z TIL the first space shuttle Enterprise was originally due to named Constitution. After a letter-writing campaign from Star Trek fans, President Ford said he was “partial to the name” and told NASA to change it
gr7Py TIL that Carl Sagan has an archive in the Library of Congress, endowed by the creator of Family Guy. Seth MacFarlane put up an undisclosed sum to help the Library of Congress buy more than a thousand boxes of material kept by the late scientist and his wife and collaborator, Ann Druyan.
N7aOJ TIL about the Belga, Belgium's parallel currency unit worth 5 Belgian Francs, introduced in 1927 to prevent confusion with the French Franc following the dissolution of the Latin Economic Union and the end of Napoleon III's monetary union.
Rmow TIL In 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima.