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TIL the CIA once "kidnapped" a Soviet spacecraft overnight, took it apart, studied it, reassembled it, & sent it back without the Soviets realizing.

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x7xw TIL the science fiction films ‘Contact’, 'The Fifth Element’, 'Gattaca’, 'Men in Black’, and 'Starship Troopers’, were all released in the same year, 1997
Y7P6v TIL Antonie van Leeuwenhoek handcrafted his microscopes using secret methods. They had powers of magnification ranging from 50 to 300x and the instrument he made in 1677 was powerful enough to see sperm
4exJ TIL that there is evidence to suggest that the reason Asian cultures are typically more skilled at maths than non-Asian cultures is not due to intelligence, but to the nature of their languages.
W7KL TIL two people purchased backstage tickets to a Justin Bieber concert just to tell him his parents divorce was his fault. (Fact 71)
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