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TIL about the Halo Drive, a proposed method for interstellar travel that combines black holes, gravitational slingshots, lasers, and solar sails to propel a ship close to the speed of light without expending fuel.

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yJo8 TIL that Steve Jobs almost named the iMac Macman. This would have meant we would now be using Podmans, Padmans, and Phonemans.
M7omA TIL Disney's "Susie the little blue coupe" (the film that would directly inspire the design philosophy of Pixar's "Cars") is in the public domain due to failure of copyright renewal. The soundtrack however remains in copyright.
EWjp TIL it’s Bugs Bunny’s own fault that Elmer Fudd wants to shoot him with a gun. Elmer was a mild-mannered wildlife photographer shooting with a camera, until Bugs Bunny’s incessant pranks drove him suicidally insane.
wdEo TIL That the more successful Roman gladiators endorsed products before commencing a fight and would have their names on the Roman equivalent of billboards.
oB0eY TIL about the Civil Cooperation Bureau, an innocuous-sounding civilian agency in apartheid South Africa - it was a actually a death squad responsible for a number of murders and controlled by the Minister of Defence, Magnus Malan