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TIL that NASA is still paying Space Shuttle landing fees 11 years after the program ended.

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W7L8B TIL that, in 1805, Carl Friedrich Gauss had actually invented Fast Fourier Transform even before Fourier Transform itself but it was forgotten because he didn't publish it. It was re-invented about 160 years later by James Cooley & John Tukey, in a bid to detect nuclear bomb testing underground.
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