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TIL that Unreal Engine 3 was used for the backgrounds in LazyTown

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km8d TIL that Ariane 5, a $7 Billion rocket crashed just due to a simple integer overflow (16-bit instead of 64-bit) , setting back European Space Agency by $400 Million and 4 years.
wodaE TIL In 1969, Nixon appointed a Space Task Group which presented recommendations including building an Earth-orbiting space station, a lunar-orbiting space station, a base on the lunar surface, and a human expedition to Mars. They were too expensive, so Nixon directed NASA to build the Space Shuttle
nebPr TIL that every German household pays around $20/month to finance an independent and objective news network - free from political and private influence
Qkvd TIL: That in 1955, Quaker Oats Company gave away legal deeds to tiny parcels of land in Alaska in boxes of cereals
ADenl TIL of the Saint Gallen Group, a group of liberal-minded bishops and cardinals that held yearly secret meetings from 1996 to 2004 to discuss church policy, and were rumored to try to block Benedict XVI from being elected as pope.