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TIL that in 2007 the NCTA launched a campaign to teach families about online safety. Here’s a rare PSA that gets its point across in a cute, innocent way rather than being scary.

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mBdY TIL Barbara Morgan was the backup teacher to Christa McAuliffe in the ‘Teacher in Space Project’. She became an astronaut to honour McAuliffe and flew in space 21 years after the doomed Challenger shuttle, finally fulfilling McAuliffe’s mission.
KO0M9 TIL THAT Robert Downey Jr. credits Burger King for getting him off drugs: Apparently, he ate a burger that was so nasty, it made him rethink his life choices and throw all of his drugs into the ocean.
6E0Ll TIL about Toki Pona, a constructed minimalist language that consists of 125 words that describes essences of ideas. These root words are combined to form new words, reducing the complexity of concepts. It is said to be helpful to depression as it simplifies thoughts.
Eg1wX TIL After Apollo astronaut Al Worden left NASA, he moved to San Francisco, grew out his hair, and became a quasi-hippie. Worden was also a frequent guest on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, telling children what it was like to be an astronaut
j61QX TIL, that there are artificial islands on the coast of Los Angeles called the THUMS Island that are oil fields hidden in plain sight