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TIL helium is the only element that was discovered outside of earth before being found on our planet. Also, when cooled past its lambda point, it becomes a superfluid without viscosity.

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JaL4 TIL that Reuters was founded by Paul Reuters, who in 1848 established a route of carrier pigeons to transmit information about stock news that was faster than the postal trains of the time.
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LkRP9 TIL in 1984 Thomas Cavanaugh, an aerospace engineer. Was sentenced to life in prison for stealing classified documents about the B-2 stealth bomber and trying to sell them to the Soviet Union for only $25,000.
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oRddW TIL that in Nazi-occupied Netherlands, you could not be a Catholic AND a Nazi. The same month the Nazis invaded, the Dutch Catholic bishops excommunicated all their Nazis.