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TIL of Mitsutoki Shigeta, the son of a wealthy and powerful Japanese millionaire entrepreneur who ran a baby factory in Thailand; fathering dozens of babies in his personal quest to tilt elections in his favor and breed a family of voters.

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MeY4V TIL Due to the emergency return of Apollo 13 the lunar module's plutonium reactor currently sits intact on the Pacific Ocean floor with a functional lifespan of 870 years.
WPO4 TIL that Margaret Cho was rejected by a producer on her show All American Girl. Still heart broken, she looked him up 17 years later to find out that he had bludgeoned his wife to death and put her in his attic where she partially mummified. She wrote a song about him.
e1QD TIL “Impossible” colors exist such as Red-Green (NOT brown) and Yellow-Blue (NOT Green) that humans can not NORMALLY see. By staring at adjacent bits of red and green, or of yellow and blue, your brain will eventually create a color you’ve never seen before!
PdGw TIL that Erik Estrada never held a motorcycle license while starring as a motorcycle patrol officer on “CHiPs”. He only later received one (after three attempts) when preparing for a reality show.
nWBJG TIL the James Webb Space Telescope captured an eruption of water vapor that punched 6K miles (9.5K km) out into space from a geyser on the Saturn moon Enceladus. The largest spray of water ever seen in space gave unprecedented insight into how the moon's geysers supply material to Saturn's icy rings