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TIL Place on Earth furthest from land is Point Nemo or Pole of inaccessibility. It is a cemetery for the satellites and space stations. Over 263 satellites including MIR, 142-ton Russian Space Station have been crashed here. NASA is planning to crash International Space Station here at 2028.

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4kMWb TIL one individual of Myotis brandtii (a small bat species about a third the size of a mouse) was recaptured "still hale & hearty" 41 years after it was initially banded. Which is the equivalent to about 240-280 human years, with the bat showing little to no sign of aging.
QNMgM TIL that Smash Mouth's "All Star" was first popularized by the 1999 movie "Mystery Men" with Ben Stiller, and the song's appearance in "Shrek" 2 years later was a revival of the hit
1aQED TIL, Johnny Cash was brutally attacked by an ostrich he kept in a wildlife park, it broke 2 ribs and slashed his stomach open. As a result of the pain pills he was prescribed, he fell back into drug addiction years after overcoming them.
N78N1 TIL that the Apollo Guidance Computer, used in the moon landings, had 64 Kilobytes of memory and a .043 Megahertz processor. The iPhone 11 has 4 Gigabytes of memory and a 2.5 Gigahertz processor, more than 58,000 times as powerful.
Z8JmQ TIL about the loneliest man in the world - an uncontacted tribesman in Brazil who is the only remaining member of his tribe - dubbed the "Tanaru Isolated Indian". Remaining members of the tribe were massacred or wiped out by disease.