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TIL The inventor of the Super Soaker water gun was a NASA scientist who helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.

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1aLLW TIL In 2016 the Norwegian Airforce transported a ECMO machine needed by a critically ill patient by fighter jet
jNgLE TIL surrealist artist Salvador Dali had a pet anteater, delivered an art lecture wearing a full diving suit with two Russian wolfhounds at his side, and had a lifelong disgust for female genitalia after stumbling upon a picture book of venereal diseases as a child
Bl4e TIL Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was criticised by book reviewers due to the harsh treatment of characters that could be ‘perceived’ to be American
VB4g8 TIL Pacific Electric (PE) was America’s largest interurban electric railway system, blanketing the Los Angeles region with more than 1,000 miles of rail lines
Q57e TIL that all even numbers (except 2) can be expressed as the sum of 2 prime numbers, a rule known as Goldbach’s Conjecture