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TIL 35 years after it’s launch, it’s estimated Voyager 1’s power supply still has 76% of its initial capacity.

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jQwa TIL in 1933, three Japanese school girls crossed in love committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 800 other people leapt into the same crater.
9Yeg6 TIL that there are no Wendy's in Europe due to a local Dutch snackbar owner owning the Wendy's trademark in Europe. They have been in a legal battle for years and Dutch courts side with the snackbar every time.
wYZW TIL North Korea and China signed a mutual defense agreement which says “the two nations guarantee to adopt immediately all necessary measures to oppose any country or coalition of countries that might attack either nation”
78lDL TIL, That there is a book at Harvard bound in human skin, called 'Des destinées de l'âme' (Destinies of the Soul)
R8yj TIL Karl Malone, while a sophomore in college, impregnated a 13 year old girl, and for years refused to pay even $125 a week in child support.