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TIL Engineers figured out how to build a nuclear-powered plane without hurting the crew, but it failed cost/benefit analysis and was cancelled

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Ar7x TIL that if fraud were a country, it’d have the fifth largest economy in the world.
k9Lg TIL that Stephen King has made large charitable donations without announcing them because he was “raised firmly to believe that if you give away money and you make a big deal of it so that everybody sees it, that’s hubris. (…) you’re not supposed to make a big deal about it.”
e6wL TIL The most expensive movie stunt ever was in the movie cliffhanger. The stuntman was paid 1 million dollars to transfer between two jets at 15,000 feet.
16OGP TIL multiple U.S. companies have been caught over the years selling raccoon dog (tanuki) fur as "faux fur." Three were sued and reached settlements with the government that included no financial penalty.
obRL TIL Fred Rogers was committed to racial diversity, and not long after inner-city riots erupted following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, Rogers introduced the character of a black police officer keeping everyone safe in the neighborhood.