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TIL Space Shuttle Columbia and Enterprise were initially fitted with ejection seats borrowed from the SR71

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d8vK8 TIL of a 1993 proposal to build a giant advertising billboard in outer space that would appear roughly the same size and brightness as the moon. The project didnt meet funding and inspired a bill to ban all advertisement in outer space.
X0g0Q TIL An Olympian Sold Her Silver Medal To Fund A Boy's Surgery. The Buyer Let Her Keep It.
awovL TIL there is a monument dedicated to Benedict Arnold's leg in New York.
p8R9b TIL the Michael J. Fox movie "The Frighteners" was originally intended to be a "Tales From The Crypt" spin-off
J7Jv TIL the Canadian Flag has become a symbol of quality in Somalia after Canada sent a shipment of genuine Toyota small trucks there. Apparently someone had been producing low-quality knock-off trucks. People have even started getting the flag as a tattoo there.