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TIL NASA plans to lasso an asteroid and drag it to the moon for astronauts to walk on.

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X0o5X TIL A 2 billion yen run on a Japanese bank in 1973 was traced back to a casual remark about the danger of working in a bank during a conversation between three female high school students.
R7Aw TIL the English name for the color Orange is named after the Orange fruit, and the color was originally, “Geoluard”
nBOY TIL that Jonathan Ive, The Chief Designer at Apple, has a private lab that only his team and top Apple executives are allowed into. It is so secret that Ive refuses to allow his children to enter.
wo0P6 TIL Disagreeing with his contemporaries generally who saw the roman republic as disunited and disorganised because of the plebeian uprisings, Niccolo Machiavelli defended said uprisings as essential to liberty and argued in favor of strikes and non-violent popular dissent
E4GV TIL that in France, Germany, and Switzerland, it is illegal to deny that the holocaust happened