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TIL about plans for a life-sized replica of the USS Enterprise to be built in Las Vegas in the early 90s

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rp5x TIL of a prankster, who, in 1976 used curtains to cover up the letters in “Hollywood” to “Hollyweed,” the day the state’s relaxed marijuana law took effect. Also, that Easter he made the sign into “Holywood,” and in 1990 made it to “Oilwar,” to make a political statement against the Gulf War.
b69A0 TIL Plankton can refer to microscopic organisms that live in the air as well as the ocean
yPVJ TIL that Kathryn Beaumont at 13 voiced Alice in “Alice in Wonderland” and did so again for “Kingdom Hearts” at age 64.
QJOee TIL about Freddish, the distinct language Mister Rogers used on-air
8ePwV TIL - Ants sometimes lay a trail of pheromones that circles back onto itself, trapping all the other ants in a death spiral where the entire colony runs to death.