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TIL Kinder Morgan believes oil spills are good for the economy because it creates jobs to clean it up.

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d19Q TIL the ‘Moon Museum’ is a small ceramic wafer three-quarters of an inch by half an inch in size which was left on the surface of the moon during the apollo 12 mission. It contains artworks by the six most prominent artists of the 1960’s, including Andy Warhol, who drew a penis.
PYl0n TIL of the concept of Yūgen (幽玄) an important concept in traditional Japanese aesthetics that doesn't have an English equivalent. It is said to mean "a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe ... and the sad beauty of human suffering".
WGdY TIL David Duchovny is very similar to his character in Californication. Shortly after the first season aired, Duchovny checked into rehab for sex addiction, which was linked to alcoholism.
BZrW TIL that transparent aluminum, which has existed since 1981, can stop a .50 caliber bullet.
g8vb TIL that because Abraham Lincoln grew a beard (at the request of an 11 year old), Milton Bradley’s business of selling lithographs of the clean-shaven presidential nominee failed. Soon after, Bradley developed the boardgame, Life.