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TIL that the U.N. has appointed an official ambassador of earth to greet ETs in case of contact

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BMND TIL there is a company that will orchestrate your own kidnapping, torture and interrogation for money. Just to see how much you can take. You can set up a kidnap-window anywhere around a few days to six weeks. You’re still in control with two special words; the moderator word and the end word.
MeJd7 TIL that the Morton Salt Company(Girl in a Yellow Dress) was the same company that caused the Challenger disaster(Morton-Thiokol).
vPmXB TIL that the first 3D printer was developed in 1971 by Johannes F Gottwald and patented under the name 'the Liquid Metal Recorder'.
GY4GQ TIL of the "Gimli Glider", Air Canada Flight 143, a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet, midway through the flight. Successfully landed with 0 casualties.
gM459 TIL: Leonardo DiCaprio was originally supposed to play Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels. He backed out at the end of the process because he "didn't feel ready to take that dive, at that point."