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TIL there was a proposed NASA mission for 2016 to put the first extraterrestrial seafaring probe into one of Titan’s seas.

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KYOLG TIL that Cambridge University classified a dog as a cat to get around its canine ban on campus
6OKY TIL that when the mayor of Fucking, Austria was asked if he would change the town’s name, he replied “everyone here knows what it means in English, but for us Fucking is Fucking—and it’s going to stay Fucking.”
wLyGP TIL Having two small children means on average someone is sick in a household 29 weeks out of the year, meaning the household has a sickness more often than it is healthy.
LQDY9 TIL seagulls are actually cleptoparasites, and know they're stealing your food. Confirming they're the assholes we all know they are.
xVpZ7 TIL of the One Small Step Act, which gives legal protection to the Apollo Moon landing sites against possible inadvertent or intentional tampering. It passed the US Senate in 2019 and is awaiting a vote in the House of Representatives