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TIL The NASA plans to decomission the ISS by 2031, via controlled re-entry on the pacific ocean

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e0JVg TIL: A pop group was formed in Japan with the aim of "singing and dancing away" its insolvent members' personal debt.
9YMQ TIL, Lang Hancock (Gina Rinehart’s father) suggested forcing aboriginals - to collect their welfare cheques from a central location: “And when they had gravitated there, I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future.”
e0pLL TIL that Thomas Jefferson believed mastodons still lived somewhere in the West and instructed Lewis and Clark to look for one
OA8a TIL that Steven Spielberg had acquired the rights to Ghost in the Shell, which will be made into a live action movie that is prospected to have Scarlett Johanson as leading actress