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TIL that India's Mars Orbiter mission had a budget of $73 million, which is less than the budget of big Hollywood movies about space

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nndY TIL:Tycho Brahe,A 16th Century Astronomer wore a brass prosthetic nose after losing his real one in a duel over the legitimacy of a mathematical formula. He also owned a trained pet Moose who lived indoors with him. who died after it had drunk a lot of beer, and fallen down the stairs, at a party.
rNBXe TIL Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin singer) had three children with his wife (at the time) Maureen Wilson before divorcing in 1983 and then had a child with Maureen's sister Shirley Wilson. Making his kids both cousins and siblings.
lRjK TIL the fastest speeding ticket ever was issued in Texas to a driver who was going 242 MPH in a 75 MPH zone.
wLPj7 TIL In 2011, two men got lost at sea and were adrift of 33 days before washing up on an atoll, where they meet a descendant of a long-lost uncle. The uncle had also gone adrift 50 years earlier.
Kjjw TIL that in 1990 there was a Charlie Brown special called “Why, Charlie, why?” It focused on one of the kids developing Leukemia.