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TIL That Luxembourg is aggressively pursuing space mining

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0d09y TIL that in 1969, Honduras and El Salvador, who already had extreme tension, faced off in the 1970 FIFA qualifier. Game 1, won by Honduras, led to Salvadoran rioting, and Game 2, won by El Salvador, led to Honduran riots. After border skirmishes, this led to a four-day war known as the Football War.
loJAa TIL that in his famous scene in ‘The Shining’, the crew made a fake door for Jack Nicholson to break through, but had to replace it with a real door as the fake one broke too quickly due to Jack previously being a Fire Marshall.
vPvx7 TIL in Die Hard Bruce Willis wears 34 different undershirts each with different levels of grime
e0dYb TIL about Ellsworth & Emery Kolb, brothers from the early 1900's who "dangled from ropes, clung to sheer cliff walls by their fingertips, climbed inaccessible summits", and defied death to photograph the Grand Canyon
YNdG TIL By the time a person in the United States is 65 years old, he would have seen an estimated two million television commercials