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TIL that a German probe is the fastest man-made object in history

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Nlke TIL that in US, Outdoor cats are believed to be responsible for the extinction of 33 species of birds, mammals and reptiles, killing between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds and 6.9 billion to 20.7 billion mammals a year.
Oo5ag TIL that astronauts often lose fingernails due to their glives during spacewalks. Some remove their fingernails before they leave.
QNRad TIL: The pharmaceutical companies median markup price markup for cancer therapies ranged from 118.4% to 633.6% in the US
wyQo TIL Joe Arridy was named the happiest inmate on death row. He had an IQ of 46 and played with a toy train given to him by the prison Warden. Due to his lack of understanding, he smiled on the his way to the gas chamber
9wMBB TIL the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC displayed a working "Little Boy" Atom Bomb that lacked only uranium until 1986. Then the Department of Energy took the bomb from the museum to remove its inner components, so it could not be stolen and detonated with fissile material.