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TIL Alan Ruck and Matthew Broderick were close to 30 while acting as high school students in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ (1986)

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jN9Ov TIL "This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours" - Is the message NASA launched as a record into space in 1977 attached to Voyager 1.
AwBl TIL there is a highway in space called The Interplanetary Superhighway. It was mapped out by NASA scientists to send probes around the solar system with the least resistance using gravity.
EgmG7 TIL: At the time of the Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941, Hawaii was not legally a part of the Union as one of the then-48 officially recognized states (along with Alaska). The territories of AK & HI did not join the United States until 1959, only 65 years ago.
MYgW TIL scientists believe MSG is perfectly safe. The MSG “myth” is based a single complaint from a scientist who once ate Chinese food, got sick and decided to blame it on the additive.