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TIL SpaceX (Starlink) owns more than half of the earth's artificial satellites.

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KYWER TIL there's a fringe theory that every pope since Pius XII (1939–1958)—including John XXIII to Leo XIV—is not a true pope, and would only become valid if they converted to Catholicism
p8rvN TIL the vast majority of plastic polluting our oceans doesn't come from straws or bottles. It comes from abandoned fishing gear.
v1vQB TIL - A San Diego flight school flunked two of the 9/11 hijackers for being terrible students.
R7JA1 TIL that Steven Bradbury, the Australian who won an Olympic gold in speed skating because everyone else fell down, owns a brewery called Last Man Standing
9Y7nm TIL about The Fortress of the Bears (aka Admiralty Island), an island off the coast of Alaska that has the highest concentration of brown bears in North America. The ~1600 bears outnumber people 3 to 1.