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TIL McDonald's and NASA explored an advertising agreement for a planned mission to the asteroid 449 Hamburga; however, the spacecraft was eventually cancelled.

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wLN1Y TIL Father's Day was first officially declared a holiday by President Nixon in 1972.
1am18 TIL: The airspeed velocity of a (European) unladen swallow is about 24 miles per hour or 11 meters per second.
5VAM8 TIL that Mike Love gets a third of the royalties for "Wouldn't It Be Nice" for writing just one line ("Good night baby, sleep tight baby"), while Tony Asher gets only a sixth for writing the rest of the lyrics
E1anW TIL Oklahoma has the highest rate of childhood trauma in the US, measured using the ACE test. The aftereffects of this are seen in levels of incarceration, deaths by heart disease, divorce, and more. An ACE score of just 2/10 can increase future risk of social and physical struggles.
ADy6a TIL There were approximately 33,000 Japanese Americans who served in the US military in World War 2.