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TIL the space shuttle was originally designed to collect Soviet satellites and return them to the USA for reverse engineering

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7rJ6x TIL That There Is Are Several Statues Of Liberty In France (Pictured Statue Of Liberty, River Seine)
NDjM TIL that not once in Humpty Dumpty does it refer to him as an egg.
NGM TIL that an ancient sequoia tree that has been alive for most of humanity’s modern history was cut down in 1891 so that slabs of its trunk could be displayed in museums.
9YJp6 TIL the average human body temperature has decreased over the last century and is likely due to improved health. Temperature of men born in the early to mid-1990s is on average 1.06 F lower than that of men born in the early 1800s.
gjkX TIL: The inspiration for the Lone Ranger was a black man born into slavery who later became a US Marshall and was credited with 3,000 arrests and killing 14 outlaws