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TIL that there was a six-episode anime adaptation of Robert Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers

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W7voA TIL 70%-90% of detainees at the Abu Ghraib detention facility were mistakenly imprisoned
ADydo TIL the very first musical guest on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" -- his 2nd ever show in September 1993 -- was a little-known English band called Radiohead.
5YgNQ TIL I learned that Sharknado was made with a fake name called “Dark Skies,” to get actors to sign on. After they learned it was Sharknado, they all tried to quit.
N7omb TIL that the first person of color to ever be vice president of the United States was Charles Curtis, VP to Herbert Hoover who was of American Indian tribal citizenship
Ajmo TIL of Tan, a patient in a French hospital who was cognizant and alert, but had paralysis in his right arm. He could only say the word, “tan”. When the man eventually died, Paul Broca examined his brain finding a lesion in the frontal lobe, a spot we now call Broca’s Area.