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TIL the Seinfeld episode The Implant popularised the term "double dipping", George gets in a fist-fight over the act

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xV0jB TIL that in 1908 a meteorite hit Russia with hundreds of times more power than an atom bomb, destroying 500,000 acres of forest, knocking ppl over 40 miles away and causing weather events around the globe - but no one was killed and no impact crater was found.
8m7X TIL in 2002 an asteroid was discovered in a strange orbit around Earth. It was later found to be the third-stage booster rocket from the Apollo 12 moon landing.
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gr769 TIL that in Thailand, if your spouse cheats on you, you can legally sue their lover for damages and can receive up to 5,000,000 THB ($140,000 USD) or more under Section 1523 of the Thai Civil and Commercial Code