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TIL That Australia Was The Third Country to Successfully Launch A Satellite Into Orbit

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MXj7 TIl it’s impossible to lasso Zebras because they have enough coordination to dodge the rope, a skill horses lack. This is why they’ve never been domesticated.
epNKg TIL in 2002, actor Don Johnson was caught with $8 billion USD worth of credit notes, statements and securities on the Swiss-German border. They were later found to be assurances from film investors
VM0nG TIL Bill Gates once released a swarm of mosquitoes at a TED talk about malaria, saying that it shouldn’t be an experience only for poor people.
APJd TIL In December 2009, a campaign launched on Facebook made Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing in the Name” the number-one single in the UK for Christmas, which had been dominated for four consecutive years from 2005 by winners from the popular TV show The X Factor.
xV8p5 TIL of Lisztomania, the obsessive fan hysteria surrounding the classical composer Franz Liszt. Admirers would fight over his locks of his hair, pull his carriage like horses, and carry glass vials of his old cigars and coffee dregs.