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TIL NASA's Juno spacecraft travelled 1.8 billion miles over almost five years and arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016 at 8:53 PM US Pacific time, only ONE SECOND off-schedule.

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Z8agD TIL that in 2016, after 168 years of searches the infamous lost ship "Terror" was ultimately found in Terror Bay, which was named after the ship in 1910 - half a century after its disappearance. For a long time, Canada refused to look for a ship there despite numerous statements by the local tribes
x6LED TIL German nationalists in the 1930s created their own version of physics because real physics was too Jewish.
JDX1 TIL in 1998, a woman hit and killed a cyclist when she was distracted by her Tamagotchi.
ADDYn TIL an an American Indian woman left behind during an evacuation in 1835 lived alone on a remote island off the coast of California for 18 years, inspiring the children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."
Wk40N TIL There is lava on Mars.