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TIL that roughly 67% of the earth is under cloud cover at any given point of time.

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N7KBJ TIL That Spaceballs was originally going to be titled Planet Moron, but was changed when a film titled Morons from Outer Space was released; Spaceballs, despite the assumed innuendo, was a result of needing “space” in the title and Brooks considering it one of his trademark “screwball” comedies.
DQAQp TIL that in 1920, then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Herbert Hoover (then a businessman who had no official political affiliation) to run for the Democratic Nomination for President and choose Roosevelt to be his running mate.
dA6d TIL the CIA lost a plutonium powered device in the glaciers that birth the Ganges River (Nanda Devi, 25643 ft) trying to spy on Chinese nuclear missile activity. There is still concern regarding the location and integrity of the radioactive material.
BWyr TIL that the FDA is accused of having unethical relationships with drug manufacturers, resulting in many potentially unsafe drugs on the market.
wZmJ TIL USA has relatively poor median net wealth than rest of the developed world.