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TIL that mankind has built a space craft that will come within 3.83 million miles of the Sun in December of 2024.

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b66aN TIL about "Old Tjikko" one of the world's oldest tree-organisms, estimated to be well over 9500 years old.
4jAJ TIL as the third man in history stepped onto the moon he said “Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me”
BRMd TIL I learned that sometimes in the United States and Hungary, the phrase “The devil is beating his wife” can be used to mean the sun is shining while it is raining out.
j6G8R TIL children's book author Roald Dahl was an ace fighter pilot during World War 2
d9gj TIL that in 1977 Saturday Night Live had an “Anyone Can Host” contest and the winner was an 80-year old woman named Miskel Spillman.