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TIL clockwise was called sunwise before the invention of clocks.
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TIL That the movie The Breakfast Club was named after a nickname for morning detention at the high school the movie was filmed at
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TIL There is an inscription at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository meant to last 10,000 years, warning future civilizations of the danger lurking below the mountain
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TIL WD-40 was first used to protect the outer skin of the Atlas missile, the first operational ICBM.
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TIL that people estimate NASA’s budget to be 24% of the national budget, on average. It’s currently only ~0.48%.
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TIL a 2005 supreme court decision declared that it is NOT the duty of any police force in the US to protect citizens, just enforce laws.