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TIL that for 23 years, a Dallas family sent flowers to NASA mission control in Houston, before each of the 110 Shuttle missions since they resumed following the Challenger explosion.

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dDRj7 TIL the Royal Canadian Mint was making limited silver coins in the shapes of dinosaurs
be9Q TIL a German Officer asked Picasso “Did you do this”, when he saw a photo of the painting ‘Guernica’, a painting about the effects of German Bombardment on the Spanish Town of Guernica, Picasso simply responded “No you did.”
GAN64 TIL that E=mc^2 is not the full Einstein's equation and it only works for objects that aren't moving
WJbd TIL 25% of Russian men die before reaching 55, compared with 7% in the UK and less than 1% in the US. Vodka is cited as the cause for low life expectancy.
gMw1W TIL a bear in a state park got into campers’ coolers and used claws & teeth to puncture beer cans; Fish & Wildlife Sgt. Bill Heinck said the bear tried a can of Busch, ignored the rest, then drank about 36 Rainier beers. They caught it a live trap baited with donuts, honey, open cans of Rainier.