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TIL about Saturn's Hexagon - Larger in diameter than the Earth

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mxw6O TIL the first knights of Korea were all-female. The name of their order was "Flower Girls". Curiously, they didn't change the name when they started allowing men, and thus the first male Knights were called "flower boys".
ywZl TIL BMW recalled its GPS system on its 5 Series cars in the late 1990s after German men drivers refused to take directions from the female voice.
ANZxa TIL - 9/11 led NATO to invoke Article 5 of the Washington Treaty for the very first time in its history.
N7JB1 TIL: The first-ever solar-powered satellite, Vanguard 1, is "the oldest human-made object still in orbit" (plus some of its launch rocket). Launched in 1958, it stopped talking in 1964 but continues orbiting. The three sats older than it (Sputniks 1 & 2, Explorer 1) are no longer in orbit.
P1QGg TIL about Hanno II the Great, a Carthaginian aristocrat from the 3rd century BCE, who twice sabotaged Carthage's war effort against the Romans in the 1st Punic War, and the 2nd Punic War, simply because he wasn't personally gaining anything from either war.