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TIL Bill Nye is the CEO of the Planetary Society, a non-profit originally founded in part by Carl Sagan to further space exploration

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XEBEk TIL that Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, in an attempt to obtain a visa to live in England, almost married Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols. The registrar's office was closed when the couple arrived and the marriage never went ahead.
vvBx TIL of a man who joined the Marines as a private, got promoted to Sergeant and then became an officer as a Lieutenant, then got discharged, enlisted as a Private again, then became an officer again, and ended up being a Lieutenant General
rjKM TIL Jeff Goldblum was offered to be the voice of Siri by Steve Jobs himself.
dDaKQ TIL The CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don’t write names on the cups. Its receipts say “Store Number 1” instead of “Starbucks,” and its workers need an escort to leave their work posts.
gBPD TIL that the CIA museum has a smoking pipe designed to receive radio messages and relay them silently to the user’s ear by sending vibrations up the user’s jawbone.