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TIL: Point Nemo is the satellite landfill
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TIL the capital of what would become modern Spain was in Toledo until 1561 when Phillip II decided to separate the seats of power for church and state by moving the gov't to Madrid
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TIL in 2019, NASA had investigated a claim that one of its astronauts illegally accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse while on board the International Space Station, in what is considered the first crime ever committed in space.
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TIL that 125 airlines from 18 African countries are blacklisted by the EU. (banned from operating in European airspace for a lack of safety oversight)… the world’s second-largest and second most populated continent, accounts for less than 3% of the world’s air traffic.
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TIL that Dole used threats of lawsuits to suppress a documentary about its workers; the director made a movie about that experience. How large companies can inhibit your freedom of speech and the manipulation of journalists.
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TIL On the set of “Big Fat Liar,” where John Cho played Hong Kong director Dusty Wang, he refused to do an accent because he did not want to do an accent in a children’s comedy where young people would be laughing inadvertently at an Asian stereotype