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TIL Pioneer 10, a space craft meant to study Jupiter which was launched 2 March 1972, was only meant to send signal to Earth for 3 years, but it continued to send signal for over 30 years while heading towards the center of our galaxy.

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rRZx1 TIL in the 1960s you could buy a variety of monkeys from the Sears catalog as pets, each for about $50.
NjZE TIL 70% of science and engineering students in Iran are women.
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