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TIL about Sedna, a dwarf planet in our solar system that has an extremely eccentric orbit, which has an 11,390 year Orbital Period, and right now, it's about as close to us as it will be for a VERY long time.

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kOvAm TIL that Donnie Dunagan, a retired United States Marine Corps drill instructor, managed to keep secret - throughout his entire career - that he was a voice actor in the Walt Disney's Bambi film, providing the voice of young Bambi.
R71Qa TIL the 2013 NASA Astronaut class, which had 4 men and 4 women, is nicknamed the "8-balls"
GYnxN TIL that a New York bound flight from LA was forced to make an emergency landing when a woman would not stop singing Whitney Houston's "I will always love you" in midair
OGYO4 TIL that in the 1960s, the US roasted a 1440-acre swath of Wisconsin forest with ~10,000 curies of radiation for 6 months in order to determine how it affected the area. Most of the damage was confined to the area directly adjacent to the source, and the area is completely non-hazardous today.
KOr89 TIL Domino's Pizza owner is Tom Monaghan is staunchly Catholic and financially supports pro-life groups such as Operation Rescue and Right to Life, or right-wing fundamentalist causes such as Word of God.