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TIL engineers designing the Voyager mission planned it to avoid planetary encounters over Thanksgiving and Christmas

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OoZka TIL That Isaac Newton was the one who discovered that white light is comprised of all of the colors. He even created a telescope that counteracts the effect this was having on refracting telescopes.
X0MpX TIL There is a German founded village in Jamaica
QJWXL TIL that that Hitler and all his cronies paraded around in Mercedes Benz cars ignorant of the fact that they were named after a Jewish girl: Mercedes Jellinek
KVBG TIL of a WWII war crime committed by a US bomber against a German U-boat rescuing allied civilians. It has been suppressed by the US and Germany alike, in Germany because it paints Nazis in a positive light.
QJRNk TIL about the Chinese poem "Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den," or "Shī shì shí shī shǐ." The poem is solely composed of "shi" 92 times, but pronounced with different tones.