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TIL the Gretzky brothers hold the NHL record for most combined points by two brothers – 2,857 for Wayne and 4 for Brent

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oBZmY You obviously can’t see it when you gaze up at the night sky, but Earth has a whole lot of junk floating around in orbit. There are all kinds of reasons why debris ends up orbiting Earth and many of the objects are discarded pieces of other spacecraft or long-dead satellites which have no use to anyone. Sometimes these objects crash into each other and create even more, smaller pieces of space junk which can damage active satellites and even pose a danger to astronauts.
kybe TIL that one of the earliest records we have of dreadlocks are from a civilisation in Crete
ADXb4 TIL there's such thing as a Quaking Bog, where bog vegetation builds up on top of water or very wet peat. Walking there can cause the ground to ripple and trees to sway.
R7GK8 TIL Jeopardy! Contestants stand on adjustable platforms so that they all appear to be the same height on camera.
DDWP TIL Roald Dahl, being a good friend of Ian Fleming, wrote the script for the James Bond film “You Only Live Twice”