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TIL Fans of Wu-Tang Clan started a Kickstarter to raise money so they can buy their secret album and distribute it to the people.

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R5mO6 TIL That in 1868, Zadoc Dederick designed and built a steam-powered, humanlike robot named Daniel to pull a cart.
M7PB7 TIL Due to signing their merchandise deal late, Kenner sold the first four Star Wars figures in a empty box for Christmas 1977, it had a mail in rebate so you would receive your four figures by February 1978.
eK5E TIL that more than 90% of women who learn that they are carrying a baby with Down Syndrome, will choose abortion over keeping their baby
epRAL TIL that Sharks are older than Trees - Sharks have been around for at least 400 million years and have survived all five global mass extinctions. Fossil evidence shows that the earliest sharks evolved around 450 million years ago. By comparison, trees appeared just 360 million years ago.
BgM8W 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.