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TIL that the author of “The Martian” was also a computer programmer for Warcraft 2

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rRV1w TIL South Africa is the only country in the world that has developed nuclear weapons and then later gave them up
P155Z TIL of the Galileo Spacecraft, which deployed a probe to penetrate Jupiter's atmosphere. The probe was going over 106,000 mph when it reached Jupiter, fast enough to travel from LA to NYC in 90 seconds. The probe transmitted data from within Jupiter for about an hour before pressure crushed it.
lodL1 TIL researches at Uni. of Oklahoma injected almost 300 MG of LSD into a male Indian elephant in 1967. Within 5 minutes he collapsed; slightly under two hours later he was dead.
Egxxd TIL that Coco Chanel was a Nazi Spy and a huge Anti-Semite.