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TIL that Jose M. Hernandez went from migrant worker to astronaut. He’s currently running for congress in California at the urging of the president.

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6E1A8 TIL a 24-year-old IT analyst managed to and was arrested for hacking into a public billboard and streaming a Japanese porn film which shocked motorists in Jakarta, Indonesia where access to online pornographic material is blocked
RpWw TIL that there is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, thats written language is still completely unknown today
KY6P4 TIL Flagstaff Arizona was the world's first International Dark Sky City and you can see the Milky Way at night from downtown
GyO1 TIL Bald Eagles’ nests are enormous. One nest in Florida was found to be 6.1 m (20 ft) deep, 2.9 meters (9.5 ft) across, and to weigh 3 short tons (2.7 metric tons).
wopno TIL that because the V2 rocket was fueled by drinking alcohol, during its development technicians would often drink the fuel, causing significant delays