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TIL SpaceX launched nearly half of all space missions in 2023

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rNXK1 TIL: During the parade of nations at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Greece always enters the stadium first due to its status as the birthplace of the Olympics
b66Ma TIL The bubonic plague still exists and kills a few people each year in the US
wJZ8 TIL Iran tried to get into the Guinness book of world records by making the worlds largest sandwich. But people started eating it before it could be officially measured so they failed.
mP1M TIL The back of the tin for Boston Harbour Tea carries this lament: “This Tea is from the same London blending House which in the Year of Our Lord 1773 had the Misfortune to suffer a Grievous Wrong in that certain Persons did Place a quantity of its Finest Produce in Boston Harbour.”
woDaP TIL of the Dugway sheep incident. March 13, 1968 A military jet leaked nerve agent over Utah's Skull Valley where it killed 6,000 sheep. It took 30 years for the military to admit it happened.