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TIL that the Voyager 1 is still alive and well. In December of last year, it used its rockets to maneuver for the first time in 37 years

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OGnwg TIL: The word "filibuster" was borrowed in the 1850s from a Spanish word meaning "lawless plunderer." It applied to private military adventurers from the U.S. who were attacking and pillaging Spanish colonies in Central America.
nWEMG TIL that ancient people believed that there was a type of Amber (Lyngurium) made of petrified cat urine
ZlPR TIL a British man spent three days pushing a Brussels sprout with his nose to the summit of one of the UK’s tallest mountains: “People definitely think I’m mad, and I’m beginning to think it myself.”
REv1 TIL of internet porn pioneer Danni Ashe who, due to her success in the early days of the internet, is the only woman who was on the cover of the Wall Street Journal and Juggs magazine
KO9W6 TIL That Salvadore Dali was known to avoid paying tabs at restaurants by drawing on the checks he wrote. His theory was the restaurant would never want to cash such a valuable piece of art