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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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pOw4 TIL Walt Disney’s staff once presented him with a cartoon on his birthday depicting Snow White having sex with the seven dwarfs. Disney applauded at the film’s ingenuity and casually wondered who was responsible. When the blushing illustrators identified themselves, Disney fired them.
9w61B TIL that Georgia Tech peacefully desegregated without court order or protest in 1961, becoming the first school in the south to do so. It's also one of the only public universities that never witnessed a protest against the Vietnam War
gMYXb TIL knights were actually more useful in raiding and guerrilla warfare than open field battles. They weren't the tanks of medieval times, but the special forces.
D1K7J TIL: the tv series Flipper only ran for 3 seasons, but made 88 episodes.
XXZ6 TIL that police broke up a Lego heist ring last year for stealing $40,000 worth of bricks and found that one of the suspects was also in possession of another $160,000 of bricks—18 pallets worth.