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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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mEWv TIL the scientific name of Llamas is ‘Lama Glama’
LQQdV TIL that prehistoric humans found fossils and used them to decorate their stone tools. The oldest such fossil is in a knife made by Homo heidelbergensis 400,000 years ago.
D1RKv TIL Australia has 10,685 beaches. If you visited one beach per day, it would take you more than 32 years to see them all.
wLL6M TIL that Nelsan Ellis, who played Martin Luther King Jr. in Lee Daniels' The Butler, died in 2017 at 39, the same age as Martin Luther King Jr.
JYA01 TIL what exactly causes ice circles and other obscure snow and ice formations like snow rollers and ice pancakes to appear each winter