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TIL that the UK's Royal Navy only has 2 aircraft carriers

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N7jX1 TIL Huygens, an ESA spacecraft, was launched from Earth on October 15, 1997 to land successfully on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005. That's 1.2 billion kilometers. Its six instruments gathered atmospheric data and continued sending it 90min after touchdown.
mxW7o TIL about Puzzle Jugs: common in 18th and 19th century taverns/pubs, these ceramic jugs required the drinker to solve a “puzzle” of hidden finger holes and tubes, to drink without spilling the contents of the jug all over themselves
QJNka TIL that a man built and planted an extremely complex bomb in a Nevada Casino - the FBI could not disarm it, and the controlled detonation blew up most of the Casino.
v4rD TIL: Green eyes make up only 1-2% of the entire human population, and natural occurring Violet colored eyes exist.
WANL TIL a tree was planted in L.A. in memory of George Harrison of the Beatles, just to later die due to an infestation of beetles.