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TIL about space junk collectors

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ANrOw TIL Billy Idol was first choice for the role of T-1000 in Terminator 2, but a motorcycle accident in 1990 prevented it. During his time in hospital he also swore never to wear the Confederate flag again after a black employee explained his feelings on it.
Y9ad TIL Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica contained a simple calculation error that went unnoticed for 300 years.
d8n8E TIL that the first full size radio-operated military drone was developed in 1935 in the form of the de Havilland DH-82B Queen Bee. Originally developed by the Royal Navy for target practice, it could take off and land without human operation and more than 400 were constructed.
wYr7 TIL-There are enough restaurants in New York City to eat out every night for 54 years and never visit the same place twice.
KevR TIL that journalists in the UK learn a form of shorthand known as Teeline. It allows people to take notes at over 150 WPM