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TIL the father of rocket science was a self-educated grade school math teacher

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AKMd TIL More then 1,400 children where abducted, raped, tortured and trafficked in the sex trade from England between 1997 and 2013. The government covered it up because it would be “giving oxygen” to racism.
KYlJR TIL that In 2011, a Chinese construction company called Broad Sustainable Building built a 30-story hotel called the T30 in just 15 days in the city of Hunan. See comments for the rest.
nW5oP TIL During the filming of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), When Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on September 1, most of the cast and crew was in a state of fear of what was going to happen. Charles Laughton (who played Quasimodo) lightened the mood by reciting the Gettysburg Address.
nelLr TIL in 1984, a group of cannabis growers in Northern California sued the federal government, alleging they had been subject to illegal surveillance by U2 spy planes.
bBKj TIL NASA built a wind tunnel in 1965 that could reach speeds of Mach 50.