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TIL that there is a place in the Pacific Ocean where Russian satellites used to crash that is called the spacecraft cemetery. The famous Mir space station crashed in this area in 2001.

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97WD TIL That a US professor proposed the idea that a president’s nuclear launch codes should be kept in a capsule surgically implanted in the chest of an assistant. Extracting the codes would require him to hack open the assistant’s chest and be responsible for one life before killing millions more.
mbDv TIL that in over 600 committed robberies, famous Australian bushranger Ben Hall was never responsible for one death.
VBQo8 TIL that Roald Dahl wrote a short story that predicted story-writing machines. In it, most authors end up signing contracts to let the machines write stories in their names, while a handful of authors struggle on. He ends by saying, “Give us strength, Oh Lord, to let our children starve.”
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