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TIL: The Super Guppy is used extensively by NASA to ferry components for the International Space Station and Project Orion.

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YpJv TIL that 90% of all adult entertainment is either filmed or produced in San Fernando Valley, CA
P196O TIL there are people in France who have actually done time in jail for stealing garden gnomes in the name of The Garden Gnome Liberation Front
OJXY TIL that PEPSI spent several hundred million dollars to slightly change their logo in 2008. The branding agency prepared a 27-page document to prove that this logo is the Da Vinci Code of branding, drawing on everything from magnetic fields to the “Golden Ratio”
7mJb TIL that Americans are essentially working for free almost one week per year because they don’t use their vacation days.
49v6 TIL Mary Donaldson, a 28-year-old Australian who worked at a real estate firm, met a Danish guy at a Sydney pub in the year 2000. He was Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, and she is now the Crown Princess of Denmark.