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TIL in 1979 when the Skylab re-entry approached the San Francisco Examine offered $10,000 to the first person to deliver a piece to them within 72hrs knowing it wasn't heading toward the USA. A 17yr old Aussie collected a piece, jumped on a plane with no passport or luggage and collected his prize.

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Z8N6o TIL there is a worm with the scientific name Loa loa, which literally means "Worm worm"
nWXdP TIL of Alex Steinweiss who invented music album cover art
e0xjg TIL that the founder of the modern frozen food industry, Clarence Birdseye, was inspired after he was taught by the Inuit, indigenous people of Canada, how to ice fish under very thick ice. In -40 °C weather, he discovered that the fish he caught froze almost instantly, and when thawed, tasted fresh
ADPRg TIL about the Public Universal Friend, an 18th century Quaker preacher who claimed to have died and been reborn as a genderless, nameless individual and went on to found a religious movement known as the Society of Universal Friends.
RGZQ TIL of planet HD 189733b, where it constantly rains molten glass of over 1500°F horizontally in 6000kmph winds