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TIL There are more than 500,000 pieces of debris floating or orbiting around Earth now. Most of them originated as parts of satellites and rockets.

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XEGL8 TIL The Guinness official recently awarded Guinness World Records Certificate to YouTube ’s oldest game YouTuber. The old lady from Japan is named Hamako Mori. The grandmother has been playing games for 39 years.
e05e4 TIL that up until the end of 2013 russian soldiers used "foot wraps" instead of socks for 300 years. The rationale for using foot wraps was, that soldiers needed to be able to be fully dressed within 45 seconds.
RWGl TIL America could potentially have discovered the Higgs Boson a decade before CERN but funding was cut on the collider resulting in the most expensive hole in the ground in the world.
woVn1 TIL: In 2022, the debut studio album by American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), was added to the American National Recording Registry
ep6 TIL that the word ye of “Ye Olde Shoppe” is actually pronounced “the”. The Y represents the runic letter thorn, which is the same as “th”.