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TIL A soccer player faked a 20 year career without playing soccer.

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neKOY TIL Rocket Lab successfully tested their ability to catch a rocket falling back to Earth after launch. Completed in April 2020, the test involved the used rocket, a parachute, a helicopter, and a grappling device on a cable.
vloB TIL that the Millenium Bug resulted in 154 incorrect Down Syndrome results being sent to pregnant mothers; two abortions took place.
WkoL TIL that in 1946, the United States of America tried to buy Greenland from the Danish for $100,000,000.
oRDAL TIL that in 1864, a war was fought over bat poop. In the Chincha Islands War, Spain fought with Peru over control of a group of islands covered in bat poop up to 100 feet thick. Guano, when dried, was used as the one of the main ingredients of saltpeter, an early important component of gunpowder.
odeR TIL in the 1800s it was common practice for museums to fix sculptures that had broken-off noses by creating & attaching a plaster replica. Today, Copenhagen’s Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum removed over 100 plaster noses, to give their sculptures a more pure look, & put them on display as a Nasothek.