fun fact about the challenger launch is that it happened on my dad's fifth birthday and he was in class at the time so he used the fact that it was his birthday to convince the teacher to let them watch it instead of doing regular kindergarten things and wound up seeing it explode in real time. that's today's eli dad lore
EXACT energy of that girl who demanded to watch the news instead of kids' cartoons as a kid and ended up showing the whole daycare the planes hitting the towers








