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TIL Saudi Arabia launched solar powered light beacons in the Nafud Desert to help lost travelers find safe ground and water

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6EjnZ TIL Owen Wilson attempted suicide in 2007 causing him to drop out from his role in the movie Tropic Thunder.
xVa5B TIL Foo Fighters used to publicly support HIV/AIDS denialism group Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives. Both the group's founder and her infant daughter died of AIDS-related conditions.
KOnnJ TIL of Stanley Hollis, the only British soldier to earn a Victoria cross medal for his actions on dday. He fought on multiple fronts during the war, killed hundreds of enemy troops, took out a tiger tank single-handed and on dday took out 2 pill boxes and captured multiple prisoners single-handed.
6EOgX TIL that, contrary to expectations, objects with greater drag generate less heat when entering the atmosphere. This is because a pocket of air forms in front of the object. After this was discovered in 1951, vehicles such as the Apollo capsule were designed to enter the atmosphere blunt-end first.
78oAb TIL Origins of masturbation are traced to primates 40 million years ago