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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger Pays $1 To Warner Bros Every Year For His Infamous Mr. Freeze Costume From Batman And Robin.

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pl6p TIL Jesse Owens, an African-American track athlete who won a gold medal at the 1936 “Nazi Olympics”, said: “Hitler didn’t snub me—it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.”
loEl5 TIL that the "tires" on the Apollo lunar rovers were made of a woven mesh of zinc-coated piano wire with titanium treads to keep them from sinking into the lunar soil. The tracks they left are only 1/2" deep.
69onZ TIL that the temperature profile of the Earth's atmosphere is stratified, fluctuating based on the particular atmospheric layer, with the highest temperatures observed in the exosphere, up to 2,000°C, due to solar radiation
AD5l4 TIL the Canadian Parliament once discussed how the country would deal with a zombie apocalypse; then Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird declared that "Canada will never become a safe haven for zombies, ever"
njlP TIL that a secret network of nuns and doctors in Spain stole and sold babies for over fifty years.