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TIL NASA plans to have humans on mars with in 15 years, starting with orbit mission in 2030 followed by landing by 2035

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p80Bb TIL that Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.
oDGA TIL: That the voice of male UK Siri, Jon Briggs, did not know he was the voice of Siri until he recognized his own voice on a iPhone 4s commercial.
b9Owj TIL that the infamous Kitty Genovese case that's often cited as an example of the bystander effect has been wildly exaggerated. The residents that heard her actually did call the police and a seventy year old woman went out to help her. Kitty Genovese died on her way to the hospital.
YL0v TIL the the actor who played Darth Vader, David Proust, has still not been paid because Lucas Films says Return of the Jedi has still not made a profit.
awoGN TIL of the word "inkhorn", a 16th century derogrity term for scholars who excessively and awkwardly borrowed words from Latin. They introduced short-lived words like ("devulgate, obtestate, deruncinate, subsecive") but also gave us everday words like ("Celebrate, expectation, ingenious, mundane").