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TIL the asteroid belt is no where near as crowed as portrayed in movies and on TV. There are millions of kilometers between each object and astronauts would probably not even realize they were flying through the belt

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jNX5a TIL Brigham Young, governor of the Utah Territory from 1851 to 1858, had a granddaughter who lived until 2004.
r1Vx TIL There’s a group of people in Sweden who claim that “Horses doesn’t exist”.
rPGx TIL that a South Korean scientist has cloned 600 pet dogs for grieving owners. At $100,000 a pup. I mean pop.
9ww9X TIL that there are twins in British Columbia who are conjoined by the head. Due to them sharing a brain, they can see through each other’s eyes and ‘hear’ each other’s thoughts.
QJKVM TIL about Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian who took 11 commandos into the fjords aboard a fishing boat full of explosives to sabotage the Nazi's. His feet froze solid and an avalanche buried him. He used a knife to amputate his frostbitten toes. His escape made him into a Norwegian national folk hero