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TIL it costs $10,000 to send a pound (approx 454 grams) of payload to the International Space Station, but SpaceX was able to do it in $2,500

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6EGEY TIL Captain Planet was the first cartoon to deal with AIDS. The episode featured a villain who brainwashed the community making them think Aids could be passed by casual contact, making the whole town hate a young man infected by HIV- AIDS voiced by Neil Patrick Harris.
PYkV TIL That the hospital explosion scene from The Dark Knight was improvised by Heath Ledger after the explosions failed to detonate.
jo9N TIL that Deja Vu is your brain is trying to apply a memory to a situation you are in, failing, and then making you feel like it’s familiar anyway.
KxAB TIL that slave laborers making tanks for Nazi Germany routinely sabotaged every part they could, and this caused German tanks to be extremely prone to breaking down.
R0PQ TIL the guy who called fast food restaurants causing managers to strip search young female employees for 10 years was acquitted at trial