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TIL that the trip to Mars would take only 39 days using a new type of nuke plasma rocket engine.

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KJ0G TIL There is a book that is over 800 years old, that is 3 feet tall and almost 2 feet thick. It is known as the Devils Bible and was written by a single person.
kJ7G1 TIL that during the Cold War, the U.S. developed Project A119, a classified plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon. The project was eventually canceled.
6Rgm TIL A 15 year old boy was locked up for a year on false rape charges, and the girl received no punishment when she admitted lying a year later.
Wkp7N TIL that in Colorado, the mile 420 sign on Interstate 70 got stolen so many times that it got replaced by a sign reading mile 419.99
AD9PB TIL that ~300 million years ago, when trees died, they didn’t rot. It took 60 million years later for bacteria to evolve to be able to decompose wood. Which is where most our coal comes from