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TIL that Jack Black's mom was a famous satellite engineer who worked on the Minuteman Missile and Hubble Space telescope project

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8ebGb TIL the Russian radio telescope RT-70 transmitted a series of 501 messages to the exoplanet Gliese 581c in an attempt to contact an extraterrestrial species. The messages will arrive in 2029.
gr1wD TIL that the "Lloyd's Bank coprolite" is the largest-recorded fossilized piece of human faeces in existence. It is about 1200 years old, 8 inches long, 2 inches wide and was dropped by a Viking who mainly subsisted on meat and grains.
Vxbm TIL - Empty skies after 9/11 caused a measured change in temps due to lack of jet contrails in the sky
YpVAB TIL that Bono paid $1,500 to have a hat transported from London to him in Italy by taxi and in the cockpit of a British Airways flight.
K04w TIL it is illegal to homeschool in Germany, and that homeschooled children may be removed from their parents even if these children are found to be well taken care of.