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TIL that Hyperion is the only moon in the solar system that isn't tidally locked to its orbital parent

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xvbB TIL a 24 year old made it to #5 on his national charts with a song recorded on a four-track in his bedroom. He opened for Blur the same year, and then died six months later.
Eg5NX TIL that 4.25 a.m. on 13th July 1944 a Junkers JU88 aircraft landed at RAF Woodbridge in England. The hapless German aircrew assumed they were near Berlin. The JU88 had a new radar system that could detect Lancaster bombers up to 100 miles away. Subsequent alteration of the bombers saved many lives.
kJkOW TIL The statue of Migjid Janraisig in Gandan Monestary, Ulaanbaatar Mongolia is The Tallest Indoor Statue In The World.
l77p5 TIL that Complex Numbers aren't "complex"... you can see them as a simple way to do rotations around the Cartesian plane
69BYW TIL some antennas are disguised to look like local foliage, for aesthetic purposes