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TIL that Australia was the only the third country to launch a satellite from it own soil. Behind only the USSR and the US

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6xWZ TIL that due to gravitational time dilation, the Earth’s core is 2.5 years younger than the surface.
VMR6p TIL Over 60 old police cars were purchased for the making of the 1980 movie Blues Brothers' chase scenes, and none of them survived.
Z8GYR TIL Most of the world don't refrigerate their eggs. Some wash their eggs the minute they are laid to which prevents salmonella. In the places that don't wash their egg they leave the protective layer (cuticle) on allowing eggs to stay out.
DBMj TIL that before he rapped, Ice Cube studied Architecture and Drafting, and he maintains a love for it to this day.
6E16Z TIL about Charity Hospital the second oldest hospital in the United States that was abandoned after Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans still spends $3 million dollars a year securing the building, after a $1.2 billion dollar hospital was opened to replace it.