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TIL more people have orbited around the moon (24) than have pitched a perfect game (23)

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wonvE TIL in 2023, 10% of Anguilla's GDP came from registration fees for .ai domain names.
dD7wE TIL That there were pilotless drones as early as the 1950's and one inadvertently caused multiple incidents of civilian property damage, near civilian misses, and a 1,000 acre forest fire while the US Air Force struggled to shoot it out of the sky.
8bN4 TIL: Palindrome is not a palindrome, but it is a semordnilap, which is a word that means something different backwards. Semordnilap backwards is palindromes.
5YvxB TIL that boxer Tony Galento would avoid bathing before a fight so he could distract opponents with his body odor.
YoaA TIL the English language capitalizes the pronoun ‘I’ because it looks too small when it’s in lowercase.