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TIL Joe Rogan and My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way are second cousins.

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ldQa TIL: The ‘Interplanetary Transport Network’ is a collection of gravitationally determined pathways through the Solar System that require very little energy for an object to follow.
yQm9v TIL that in Turkmenistan, colors themselves are considered state enemies. Only white cars are allowed in the capital. Cars that are not white are forbidden from the streets of Ashgabat, the non-white vehicles taken from the owners as hostages and forcibly painted white no matter what.
7GrO TIL that in the 1950s a Texas white man went through extensive physical changes to become a black man and travel for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences, he was forced to move to Mexico for several years.
grYyy TIL Inuvik, a Canadian Arctic town, transformed an old hockey arena into the world’s most northerly commercial greenhouse. Powered by 24-hour summer sunlight, locals grow fresh produce in 88 raised plots.
78k4M TIL that in the record setting $2million dollar (before inflation) boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, they swapped referees to stop Al Capone from trying to rig the match.