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TIL that cigarette butts are environmentally toxic and the most littered item in the world

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dDylK TIL in 2017, NASA successfully communicated commands 13 billion miles away to Voyager 1 and got it to fire up its thrusters which were not in use since 37 years
nWK9P TIL that according to a survey of schoolchildren (6-18 years of age), 86% did not know what a pager was, 71% couldn't identify an overhead projector, and 67% could said they had no idea what a floppy disk was.
oB04o TIL The ghost town of Picher, Oklahoma was evacuated in 2009. The town was the center of a massive lead and zinc mining complex; the Army Corps of Engineers declared in 2006 that 86% of the town's structures were so undermined that they were in imminent danger of collapse.
MeGBa TIL that one of the astronauts on board the space shuttle Challenger was due to record saxophone parts in space for a Jean-Michel Jarre record
Bxmy TIL Michael Jackson’s father, talent mogul Joe Jackson, attempted to use the press conference marking his son’s death to promote his new hip hop recording project