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TIL Every Friday and Saturday, a NASA astronaut shares some of their mission memories with guests at Space Center Houston, along with options to have breakfast together for Q&A

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N7oO8 TIL that Scheherazade, the storyteller from One Thousand and One Nights tells her stories (Aladdin, Sinbad, ...) to the monarch so that he would stop marrying and killing a new virgin every day after his first wife betrayed him. He had already killed 1001 women when they met.
yQyXl TIL that the most prolific mathematician in history, Paul Erdos, took amphetamines for the last 30 years of his life to fuel 18 hour working days. Once he was challenged to stay off the Benzedrine for a month - he succeeded but said “Mathematics has now been set back a whole month.”
7eDO TIL an 82 year old millionaire has hidden a 40lb treasure chest worth millions somewhere in NM and supplied a cryptic treasure map leading to its location. In the 3 years since he buried the treasure, no one has found it. (Map in link)
GANGg TIL that Kenny Rogers was singing at a private event of a hedge fund manager and asked to repeat 'The Gambler's over and over, being offered additional pay per song. After a dozen times and having earned $4 million, he refused to sing.
E15E0 TIL about David Edmondson, who lied on his resume to get a position as a Vice President of Marketing at RadioShack in the 90's. He worked his way up over 11 years to become CEO and resigned in disgrace after it was revealed his resume was falsified.