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TIL that the US destroyed Britain's very first orbital satellite with a 1.4 megaton nuclear bomb and kept it secret for 50 years.

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gNxD TIL of the Asian brown cloud, a layer of air pollution that appears over South Asia and the Indian Ocean every year between January and March when there is no rain to wash pollutants from the air. Nearly two million people die each year, in India alone, from conditions related to the brown cloud.
v86K TIL studies of Raccoon’s showed that they can solve complex locks in less than 10 tries, and remember task solutions for up to three years. Their North American population has also increased up to 20 times since 1930. And they travel in same sex packs of 4.
J18ZQ TIL that the movie Airplane was a parody of a 1957 movie called Zero Hour
rNWQW TIL that same-sex behavior has been recorded in more than 1000 species in animal kingdom ranging from beetles to penguins.This was earlier often seen as an example of Darwin's paradox as these behaviors are non-reproductive and don't contribute to the advancement of species in the traditional sense.
m1LKE TIL the default Windows 10 wallpaper is an actual photo and not CGI