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TIL that Big Bird from Sesame Street almost went on the Challenger space shuttle to teach kids about space. The reason he didn’t was because his costume was too big.

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NXXe1 TIL that the last battle of the thirty years war was fought at Prague where the war started thirty years earlier during the bohemian revolt. Swedish forces took parts of the city including Prague castle and looted it for months before being repelled by bohemian forces.
jNJvj TIL that the inventor of the Popsicle was just an 11-year old kid.
wdoW TIL that the ‘Kronos Effect’ is a business concept that confirms the chilling effect monopoly and massive corporations have on technology. Constant concern about being overtaken leads the giant corporations to purchase and destroy all fledgling competition.
OovZ6 TIL about the Gotthard Tunnel which had 9 deaths occur during construction, followed by the weirdest opening ceremony ever - satanic symbolism everywhere
VJn4 TIL: 13 Billion USD is all it would cost to put everyone in the USA in a 4-year public university. A rounding error by federal budget standards.