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TIL that an observatory in Germany is designed to look like R2-D2.

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v1YXD TIL Art Bell set a Guinness World Record by staying on the air for 116 hours and 15 minutes. Using the money raised on air, Bell chartered a plane to fly to Vietnam and rescue 130 stranded Vietnamese orphans, who were eventually brought to the United States and adopted by American families.
JAdQ TIL of Adrian Schoolcraft, ex NYPD officer who recorded corruption,wrongdoings and police abuse in the NYPD. He submitted it to investigators and ended up reassigned to a desk job, got abducted from his house and thrown in a psychiatric facility against his will and fired. His family got the bill.
orv8 TIL Charles Manson identified himself early on as a Scientologist and even used some ideology from Scientology as a way to get his first followers.
r91d TIL last year more members of The Army committed suicide than died in combat.
vKrK TIL Researchers placed a human language-gene FoxP2 into mice – finding their vocalization to change, and their speech-related brain regions to increase plasticity and branching