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TIL the One World Trade Center in New York is 1776 feet tall to symbolize the founding of the USA.

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OK11 TIL NASA has 2 satellites chasing eachother around the Earth tracking the distance between themselves to measure gravitational anomalies. Their nicknames are Tom & Jerry!
kJYO7 TIL Panasonic software developed a computer program 'Secret Writer's Society' to teach kids to write. Due to a bug in the code, double clicking 'Read' instead of reading back what you wrote, would instead read back the swear filter.
PNyg TIL Samuel Coleridge perceived the entire course of Kubla Khan, a poem, in a dream, but was interrupted by a visitor from Porlock while in the process of writing it. Kubla Khan was never completed. Thus “Person from Porlock” is an allusion to intruders who disrupt creativity.
rRED4 TIL that the mother of King Henry VII gave birth to him at the age of 13. The pregnancy was so difficult for her, due to her size and youth, that it made her unable to have anymore children. By the age of 15, she’d been married 3 times.
4Xgp5 Over 50 spacecraft (19 landers and 6 rovers have visited the lunar surface) have successfully launched from Earth to fly past, orbit, impact and land on the Moon.