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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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VMZwD TIL that Shirley Temple appears on the cover art of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in three different places.
4krk6 [TIL] If you stretched an ATOM to the size of a football field, the NUCLEUS would be the size of a pea. The nucleus is extremely tiny yet very dense. It accounts for less than one ten-trillionth of the volume of an atom but about 99.9994% of an atom’s mass.
5Mk8 TIL That it is illegal in South Carolina to jeer at the Confederate States of America flag.
0aW1 TIL that monosodium glutamate (MSG) has no extraordinary negative effect on the human body, contrary to common perception
wxg6 TIL Earth is the only known place in the universe where a fire can burn