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TIL: in march 1989 an asteroid passed through the exact position where Earth was only six hours earlier.

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ANbna Til Lunar dust is potent to humans.
xVwo TIL that Prince recalled an album days before it’s release because he had a bad MDMA experience and thought the record was evil.
0wdmN TIL that the first humans were apparently Chinese - Peking man was the missing link between ancient ape and modern humans. However, most of the fossil fragments of the Peking man vanished after 1941
6EgRW TIL the language you grow up speaking determines how quickly you will learn to count. Chinese speaking children learn to count to 100 an entire year earlier than their English speaking counterparts.
dDV68 TIL that 13 innocent men were exonerated because of lab technician Mary Jane Burton's habit, dating back to 1977, of scotch taping small samples of tested evidence to her lab records, even though doing so violated the official policy to destroy all evidence after it was tested.