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TIL that 50% of the fuel needed to get to Mars is required just to get out of low Earth orbit.

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R1j6 TIL the Taliban offered to extradite Osama bin Laden if the US presented evidence of his involvement in 9/11. However, the US refused.
4XryX TIL that in 2013, NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover hummed Happy Birthday to itself by vibrating its sample-analysis unit to obtain the musical tune, but did so only on its first “birthday”.
oZkr TIL that in 2006, a ship lost 58 Containers full of shoes on the North Sea. About half a million shoes flushed a shore on the Dutch island of Terschelling, covering the beaches with shoes.
4XPkg TIL that Q is the only letter that isn't in any US state's name.
nLp9 TIL when Charlie Sheen was being sentenced for using a prostitute, the judge asked him why a man like him would have to pay for sex. Sheen reportedly replied: “I don’t pay them for sex. I pay them to leave.”