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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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ANkD4 TIL that the highest grossing film theatrically is about humanity getting their ass kicked out by an alien species while the second highest is about an alien species getting their ass kicked out by humanity.
jNa5M TIL of Caspar, a cat who in 2006 disappeared from his home. It was not until 2009 that his owner found out he was a regular bus commuter. Drivers told her he would politely queue with other passengers at the bus stop, and when a bus came that he liked, he got on and found his favourite seat.
aN9 TIL That 3 divers nicknamed the “Chernobyl Suicide Squad” prevented a second explosion that would have rendered Europe “uninhabitable” by volunteering to dive into highly-radiated water beneath the reactor.
GAorJ TIL when the Eiffel Tower was proposed, anglers in Paris feared that the tower would discharge lightning into the Seine and kill all the fish
AD9r7 TIL of the European custom of "telling the bees," wherein bees would be told of marriages, funerals, and other important events in their keepers' lives.