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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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QJnLd TIL in 2009 a passenger landed a multi engine airplane after the pilot died just 7 minutes into the flight
ADyel TIL about the Montreal Protocol of 1987, which is the only environmental treaty signed by every country in the world to stop the depletion of the ozone layer. Thanks to the treaty, 98% of ozone-depleting substances have been phased out and 2 million people are saved from skin cancer each year.
8ObK TIL an air guitar that was claimed to have been played in a Bon Jovi concert was sold on eBay for 5.50$.
LQW4P TIL of a folk song called “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore”. A Black gospel song first sung by former slaves whose owners had abandoned them on the sea Islands by South Carolina. The boat symbolises a way to freedom from the tyrannies of slavery
epV84 TIL in Germany, a Coalition Government that Between The CDU/CSU (Black), the SDP (Red), and the FDP (Yellow) is called a "Germany Coalition" because the party colours match the German Flag