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TIL NASA has 2 satellites chasing eachother around the Earth tracking the distance between themselves to measure gravitational anomalies. Their nicknames are Tom & Jerry!

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GAVjj TIL that the world's first orbital rocket, the R-7, was also the world's first ICBM(Intercontinental Ballistic Missile).
Ge1E TIL of Violet Jessop, a ship nurse. She served on each of the three ‘sisters’ Titanic, Britannic and Olympic. While she was on board, the Olympic collided with a war ship and nearly sank, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank, the Britannic hit an underwater mine and sank. Violet survived all three.
x6Ja7 TIL an ocean park in China charges visitors $145 for the opportunity to get close to its polar bears, scoop up their droppings, prepare their meals and feed them once a week, for a 3 hour period.
rBEw TIL Zambia’s independence was declared on the day of the 1964 Olympics’ closing ceremony, making it the first and only country to start the Olympics as one country and end it as another.
nWrjb TIL: Seagulls are an endangered species with fewer than 100,000 in NZ