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TIL that Amazon named a building after its first customer who spent $27

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Me7DB On July 14th, the New Horizons spacecraft will make history when it sails past Pluto, formerly known as the ninth planet. Even more incredible is how fast we got there. The spacecraft traveled 3 billion miles in nine and a half years. That’s about a million miles a day for almost ten years. How the heck did we do it?
gMv0D TIL that a Texas man who shot an armadillo, got hit in the face by his own bullet that bounced off from the hard shell
neRx7 TIL that a very large telescope in Chili is officially called “the Very Large Telescope.”
nn77 TIL that Alec Guinness, the actor who played Obi-wan Kenobi, despised star wars calling it “fairy tale rubbish.” Regardless, he was one of the few cast members who believed the film would be a hit and negotiated a deal for 2% of the gross royalties paid to George Lucas. This made him a very rich man
p8vXp TIL that 10% of drinkers consume over 50% of the alcohol.