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TIL that US President Andrew Jackson, who now appears on the $20 bill, thought that paper money was inherently evil.

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7Eeb TIL that J002E3, originally thought to be an asteroid orbiting the Earth, is actually part of the Apollo 12 mission that returned to Earth orbit after 31 years of orbiting the Sun
OGn0a TIL NASA landed on the moon using a computer with just 4KB of RAM
vnAL (TIL) Liechtenstein a nation smaller than the size of Washington D.C. has been accidentally invaded three times in the past thirty years by their neighbor Switzerland.
VBQWG TIL in 2020 scientists captured the first direct image of a solar system that closely resembles our own (roughly 300 light years away), that is to say it marked the first time astronomers have observed more than one planet orbiting a star similar to the Sun.
mKVM TIL that on the death of his mother, Jimi Hendrix’s father refused to take him the funeral, instead giving the then 15 year old shots of whiskey and informing him that this was how men dealt with loss.