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TIL a US PAN satellite was launched in September 2009 and is so top-secret that no military or governmental organization claimed to have built it.

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VBJkG TIL there was a girl who locked alone in a room for most of her first thirteen years, who never successfully learned a language. She is now 56 years old.
Kmp9 TIL that goats have rectangular pupils
ADGdl TIL The notion of an "objective" media was a commercial product that only evolved in the late 1800s as newspapers shifted from partisan to nonpartisan in order to attract larger audiences from both parties and to sell these readers’ attention to advertisers.
8xPZ TIL of the 2003 Iranian film, Crimson Gold. The lead role of a suicidal, schizophrenic pizza delivery man was played by an actual paranoid schizophrenic pizza delivery man, who had never acted before. The film was banned in Iran for being “too dark”.
nW8b9 TIL: There is a study on hobbies which categorizes them from the best to worst in terms of happiness to cost ratio. The most expensive are traveling ($630), Collecting ($287), and Cooking ($240). Video games only cost $71 monthly in comparison.