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TIL Mars Rover “Curiosity” is officially designed by the NASA as “she”.

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E1bpW TIL about Project Retro, an idea proposed by the US Air Force around the 1960's that called for a thousand rocket engines to be strapped to the equator of Earth which would allow the US to slow/stop the rotation of the planet in an effort to "dodge" Soviet ICBMs.
LQyAv TIL that in Gaines v. Canada. When African-American lawyer Charles Houston argued before the Supreme Court. Justice McReynolds turned his chair backward. McReynolds also often left the bench, when a woman lawyer rose to present a case.
e0aOb TIL that Baywatch's fans were predominantly women. 65% of viewers were female, with its number-one audience being women aged 18 to 34. It turns out that the female viewers liked that the show's lead characters were strong, independent, heroic women who were saving lives and were equal to the men.
ep7Gn TIL about Don Arrigo Beccari, a WW2 Catholic Priest, who was responsible for smuggling 120 Jewish children to safety, despite intense Nazi surveillance. When the Nazis captured him and tortured him for months, he still kept quiet. He was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1964.
57v9 TIL that had Batman & Robin been successful, WB had already planned a fifth film, which would have been titled Batman Triumphant. Directed by Joel Schumacher, it was to feature Scarecrow and Harley Quinn as its villains, with a possible hallucinatory appearance by Jack Nicholson as the Joker.