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TIL that sending the New Horizons space probe to Pluto on a 15 year mission costs less than building the new Minnesota Vikings stadium

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6nYZ TIL that in two days we create the same amount of information that it took all of humanity to create from the dawn of civilization to 2003.
oBolE TIL Country Time Lemonade has a legal advocacy program to protect lemonade stands by assisting kids with city permits
e0JLD TIL that during the 1970s the Communist government of North Korea kidnapped foreign women to provide potential wifes for the American defectors, to prevent them from marrying ethnically Korean women and having mixed children
wLlm7 TIL Hollywood Agent Mike Ovitz turned his personal martial arts instructor, Steven Seagal, into a movie star. Seagal's first film "Above the Law" actually originated from a successful screen test financed by Ovitz and led to Seagal being offered a studio contract with Warner Bros.
VBApQ TIL that Micheal Jackson's "Billy Jean" was inspired by multiple women claiming to have children from his brothers while he was in the Jackson 5, as well as one who sent Micheal a handgun and a time to commit suicide so he would die at the same time as her and her son she claimed to be his.