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TIL that asteroid 2023 BU, which passed extremely close to Earth in January 2023, came within just 2,200 miles of the planet, closer than many satellites in orbit.

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5Vxon TIL that in Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, 20% of the population has attempted suicide compared to only 3.5% of Denmark as a whole
4D45 TIL Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, was the first president to be born in a hospital.
XEnKP TIL that 14 of the 26 members of the Da Silva family in Brazil have 6 fingers on each hand due to a genetic condition called polydactyly
vPLjK TIL The US Government has an entire telephone area code (710) reserved for itself, and there exists only one phone number in that entire area code.
ADlpx TIL that while camels now live in Australia as an invasive species, there are records of aboriginal people first seeing them. One man, Andy Tjilari, recalled following the camels with his family, concluding that "this horse is ignorant".