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Today I learned that NASA’s first spacestation SkyLab crashed down to earth sooner than expected and landed on Australia. No one was hurt, but NASA was fined $400 by Australia for littering.

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ANKB7 TIL that the Battle of Vienna in 1683 has the largest known cavalry charge in history.
ANgMl TIL If a person were to start to write out a googolplex at the rate of two zeros per second, it would still take far, far longer than the age of the Universe to do it.
WZYX TIL that at midnight on Dec 30th, 1899, a ship positioned itself at the intersection of the date line and equator, such that the bow and stern occupied different seasons, hemispheres, days, years, and centuries. For the ship, Dec 31st never occurred.
1dV TIL that Louis Armstrong suffered from severe calluses on his lips due to his excessive trumpet-playing. So, he cut them off with a razor blade.
Lw8p TIL: Hitler was a creepy uncle to his Niece Geli Raubal, forbidding her to marry, having her accompanied everywhere and practically keeping her prisoner until she committed suicide in 1931, after which Hitler called her “The only woman he ever loved”