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TIL about Kessler Syndrome, which describes the exponential growth of space debris, as collisions between space junk create smaller and difficult-to-track pieces of debris that contaminate our orbital real estate.

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BbMK TIL that blue whales can consume up to half a million calories in a single mouthful of krill. If you eat 2000 calories a day, that’s over 8 months of calories.
1bJW TIL Dr.Pepper was released in 1885, one year before Coca-Cola
oZPE TIL in 1967, protesters requested a permit to levitate the Pentagon 300 feet in the air, through songs and chants, to exorcise it of its evil and end the Vietnam War. Authorities agreed to only 3 feet.
w5GW TIL: A 15 year old found a cheap and speedy way to detect pancreatic cancer. He was denied 199 times before someone gave him a chance.
b9OZ7 TIL that the "General Sherman" tree in the Giant Forest is approximately 2200 years old. It would have been a little sapling 200 years before Jesus walked the earth