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TIL entire 50-year operating budget of NASA from 1958-2008 was approximately 1/5th the cost of the 2008 Bank Bailout

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kOBaB TIL Kanye West once refused to continue performing because two members of the audience wouldn’t rise to their feet. Both fans had disabilities that made it impossible to stand.
xVbp0 TIL the Ozone layer is healing and is expected to do a full recovery by 2060.
01Pp TIL That the Soviet Union, and now Russia, have a fail-deadly system which automatically launches a full scale nuclear attack in the event that authoritative command is incapacitated. It uses light, seismic, radioactive, and overpressure systems to activate the launch. It is still in use today.
QP4e TIL the first US Warship to be named after a black man was named in 1943 for sailor Leonard Roy Harmon. Harmon worked serving food to officers, one of the few jobs available to black sailors. At the battle of Guadalcanal, however, Harmon deliberately exposed himself to enemy fire to save a shipmate.
XEjeR TIL That a human bite can kill you aka your bite is more deadlier than some venomus snake bites.