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TIL that a 1997 poll found that Americans thought NASA represented approximately 20% of the federal budget. In reality, NASA represented 0.9% of the federal budget. The record high level for NASA funding was 4.4%.

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VMeWG TIL that Ritalin (Methylphenidate - which used to treat ADHD) is in the same class of drugs as Methamphetamine and acts in a largely similar way on the body (both are CNS stimulants), so a Ritalin overdose exhibits largely the same symptoms as an overdose on meth.
nGE9 TIL if you go to Venezuela with one US penny, you can buy 5 gallons of oil
9YZPB TIL that painting the tops of school buses white dropped interior temperature 10°F on avg. during the summer, with as much as a 17° difference at peak hours. Wintertime temperatures only lowered by 3 to 4°.
VRgm TIL an uncontacted tribe still inhabits an island in the Indian Ocean, living as simple hunter-gatherers. They are vigorously hostile to outsiders, and have not yet developed early technologies such as agriculture or writing.
pGPQ Today I learned that Gavin Free of Youtube’s TheSlowMoGuys was the Slow Motion Cinematographer for Hot Fuzz, the Red vs. Blue Series, and Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows