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TIL. The first nuclear missile test in space “starfish prime” knocked out several allied satellites and disabled communications on Hawaii.

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RMG4 TIL Before his arrest in 2012, Kim Dotcom was the world’s number one-ranked Modern Warfare 3 player out of more than 15 million online players.
ZplnY TIL South Dakota launched a "Don't Jerk And Drive" safety campaign to raise awareness about how dangerous it can be for drivers to overcorrect with their steering wheel when they hit icy patches. It was pulled due to negative feedback for having a double entendre for masturbation.
rNB64 TIL a team of 3 students won $700K for using AI to decipher the first passages of a 2,000-year-old scroll; 1 of 800 scrolls that were carbonized by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 CE. Since their discovery in the 1700s, trying to read them proved futile because unrolling them by hand caused damage
E1V5P TIL, You lose 8 ounces of water from your body for every hour you fly That dry air saps the water from your body to the tune of about 8 ounces an hour. Which, is roughly two liters of water during a 10-hour flight (4% of your bodily water), and women can lose around 1.6 liters.
N75DE TIL: Terry Pratchett's daughter Rhianna Pratchett was a writer on Mirror's Edge and Bioshock Infinite as well as the lead writer of the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot and it's sequel Rise of the Tomb Raider