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TIL that while aerospikes could offer the greatest rocket engine performance, no company has yet to produce a commercial engine (despite many trying) because they are so complicated.

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QNWwa TIL two gifted college students considered themselves so superior they planned “the perfect murder” to prove their intellectual abilities. After murdering a child, despite their purported genius, they left plenty of evidence and were swiftly caught and brought to judgment.
JY4g8 TIL Seth Green was something of a mascot for the New Orleans Saints Football Team in the early 1990's.
XLBD TIL Ugandan dictator Idi Amin full (sell-bestowed) title was “His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular”
PVlV TIL Gene Wilder is still alive, and hasn’t acted in a movie, because he is tired of “the bombing, shooting, killing, swearing and 3-D.”
WkWOB TIL The universal edibility test is a 7-step, 24-hour process to identify plants that are safe to eat: Separate, Contact, Cook, Taste, Chew, Swallow, and Chow.