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TIL that the Voyager and Pioneer probes are on course to pass by several stars in the far future - some within one light-year's distance. The Voyager probes carry messages/music/photos from Earth, while the Pioneer probes have a map of the solar system and a depiction of naked humans.

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e06p5 TIL that the drink Crystal Pepsi was killed in the US due to a "kamikaze" marketing campaign by Coke. Coke created the drink Tab Clear, designed to be unpopular, and marketed it so that consumers would conflate the two drinks even though they were not similar. It worked and both were pulled in 1994.
KY8MJ TIL There are no towns named Heaven but there are a few named Hell
ADX64 TIL that Honeycrisp apples have much larger cells than other apples, giving them extra flavor and crunch.
NEw8 TIL The Boudin bakery in San Francisco, has been making sourdough bread for 166 years and every loaf of sourdough bread they make has a portion of the original “mother dough” from 1849 in it.
8ekA4 TIL Fan Tan Alley in Victoria's Chinatown was a popular location for opium factories as until 1908, it was legal to produce opium in Canada. They alley's gambling clubs, cafes and restaurants were most popular in the 1940s since Chinese men had extra cash to spend