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TIL Tesla's space travelling Roadster passed Mars, Mercury and Venus in 2018. It's estimated that the Roadster will continue in its elliptical orbit until coming close enough to Earth in 2091 to be seeable by a telescope. It might then crash into Earth millions of years in the future.

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