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TIL Hayabusa Mission from Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) was the first successful mission to return an asteroid sample to Earth. Dust from Itokawa Asteroid was found to be "identical to material that makes up meteorites."

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gMeKD TIL In 1814 in London, the brewing vats in a brewery burst, releasing 580k to 1.4m litres of beer onto slum dwellings. Eight people were killed, five of them mourners at the wake of a two-year-old boy. The brewery almost went bankrupt but was saved when they received a rebate for the lost beer.
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