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TIL that Sylvester the Cat is named after the scientific name of Cats: Felis silvestris

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oRVNK TIL the lunar surface contains 1.1 million metric tons of helium-3. Just 25 tons would meet all of the US energy needs for a year. Helium-3 fusion produces charged particles which are not radioactive. Helium-3 is also renewable, being constantly deposed by solar winds on the surface of the Moon.
7EBb TIL that during the filming of “Predator” in 1987 the studio’s insurance company would not agree to insure the production unless a body guard was hired to follow Sonny Landham (Billy) around. The body guard’s sole purpose was not to protect Sonny, but to protect other people from Sonny.
E1bD7 TIL that Ray Bradbury said that Fahrenheit 451 is not about government censorship but about social censorship where the people are the culprit.
b9dOQ TIL a defector from the Russian GRU revealed that if war broke out with the US, Russian agents planned to poison the Potomac River with chemical or biological weapons, targeting the residents of Washington, D.C.
dDwEr TIL in 1913 the US government held a 50th anniversary Gettysburg reunion for veterans from the Union and Confederacy and the 2 sides treated each other as brothers and not former enemies.