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TIL Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, has long maintained his iconic work is not about censorship, but ‘useless’ television destroying literature. He has even walked out of a UCLA lecture after students insisted his book was about censorship.

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8eplL TIL that actress Lupita Nyong’o ‘s mtDNA is extremely close to that of “Mitochondrial Eve,” a woman who walked the earth 200,000 years ago, and is the “mother” of us all.
4kNr5 TIL that there is a nonprofit called the Astrosexological Research Institute studying sex in space
wLE17 TIL that the owner of Segway Inc. died in 2010 when he rode a segway off a cliff and plummeted 80 feet to his death
Nr6Q TIL at normal speed, it takes a fully loaded supertanker/oil tanker approximately 20 minutes to stop, they cut their engines 15 miles away from the dock
V7y8 TIL In Washington State there is a “mutual combat” law that takes legal precedence as long as two individuals consensually engage in a fair fight and don’t harm bystanders/property. Police officers are not allowed to intervene, even if they are a few feet away.