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TIL after 11 years in space, the Rosetta probe was intentionally crashed into a comet in order to provide close-up photos on its final descent. Scientists said they wanted it to go out in “true rock'n'roll style.”

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emDg TIL that Coldest Place On Earth Recorded ‘Soul-Crushing’ -135.8 Degrees In the Middle of Antarctica Setting World Record. The old record had been about seven degrees warmer at -128.6 (-89.2 Celsius).
LQ11p TIL about 2,4-DNP, a chemical that was used, among other things, to make black dye. 3 workers died during the 1890s after accidentally ingesting it. It dissipates energy from food in the body as heat, making people rapidly lose body fat and die from an excessive rise in body temperature.
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KYMB9 TIL Tupac's final album All Eyez on Me was released after Suge Knight paid Tupac's $1.4 million bail to get him released from jail. In return, Tupac agreed to release three albums on Death Row Records. The double album All Eyes on Me served as the first two albums in the three-album contract.
bvga TIL that 40.8% of children born in the US in 2010 were to unmarried women.