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TIL In 2014, the International Space Station had to move 3 times in order to avoid being hit by space junk moving at 17,000 mph

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jNv8R TIL that in 1996 a physicist submitted a paper full of word salad and gibberish to a postmodernist journal and it actually passed peer review and was published. This is known as the Sokal Affair.
KOvE4 TIL: Chess prodigy Bobby Fischer invented a chess variation which randomized the starting positions of the home row pieces to reward creativity over memorization.
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