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TIL the first native speaker to teach English in Japan was named "Ranald MacDonald"

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LYaZ TIL MajorHarold Hering was discharged from the Air Force for asking the question, “How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane President?”
9YXaG TIL: Among the world's oldest living beings was a tree at least 4800 years old. With irony, "Prometheus" The Tree (AKA study plant WPN-114) finally was cut down in 1964 with involvement from a grad student studying long-living trees and the United States Forest Service. (natural,non-cloned beings)
KO5vw TIL the Voyager space probe launched in 1977 and still racing through interstellar space has the same computing power as something we all carry in our pockets-- a key fob. A cell phone has 240,000 times more memory than the Voyager probe.
ZAy4 TIL that Reagan declared ‘War on Drugs,’ in 1982 and privatized prisons in 1983.
LZGm TIL Quentin Tarantino was an uncredited writer for It’s Pat!, a 1994 SNL comedy that grossed $60,822.