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TIL that Nicolas Cage bought an octopus for 150k and claimed studying it would help his acting.

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M7EDV TIL in 1953 Nazi rocket-physicist Wernher von Braun wrote a sci-fi book called Project Mars. In it, the Mars colony has a leader known as 'the Elon.'
KOVBa TIL GPS is a US-owned utility paid for by American taxpayers — in 2020, the US government will spend over $1.7B to fund the globally-used service
PapV TIL Japan used $30 million of their Tsunami relief funds to support whaling
e0Qdg TIL of Red Rock Coulee, which features large numbers of strange round stone spheres.
mxVbo TIL about Dehomag, a German subsidiary of IBM and was the main provider of computing equipment in Nazi Germany. It provided the German government with machines to conduct censuses and gave the Nazis a way of tracing Jews. The technology was used by the Gestapo to locate and arrest its victims.