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TIL scientists are working on plans to equip the International Space Station with a laser cannon to zap space debris in an effort to clean up the 3,000 tons of discarded satellites and other garbage in orbit

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YprJB TIL Fourteen American Revolutionary War Veterans Lived Long Enough to Have Their Photos Taken. Most Were Over a Hundred Years Old By Then.
BgpeL TIL that outlaw John Wesley Hardin was killed by John Selman. Selman was in turn killed by George Scarborough. Six years later, Scarborough was shot dead.
Z8mjR TIL in 2012, Kesha admitted that she would demand men entering her tour bus to drop their trousers and let her take pictures of their genitals, specifically for the purposes of emasculating them and letting them know they were in the "vagina jungle"
4Jnb TIL the French words for “male lawyer” and “avocado” are the same.
jNO9X TIL. Spain fought the longest and most expensive war of their conquest of modern day Mexico against the Chchimecas. They ultimately gave up and negotiated peace, ensuring the preservation of their culture into modern times and becoming one of the few pre-Columbian culures to fully survive