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TIL that there is a dog-bone shaped asteroid named Kleopatra. It also has 2 moons named Alexhelios and Cleoselene.

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rRwR4 TIL Pakistan is planning on building an amusement park on the site of Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad where he was killed by Navy SEALS in 2011. It will include a zoo, restaurants, water sports, miniature golf as well as rock climbing and paragliding.
vPK87 TIL that the use of the phrase "High five" as a noun has only been a thing since 1980 and as a verb since 1981
QJLLp TIL The KGB Shipped a Sidewinder Missile by Mail to Moscow - It Cost $79.25
EbMo TIL a man in the United Kingdom was so fed up that his city wasn’t repairing potholes, he went and spray painted penises on them, earning him the nickname “Wanksy”
OGLVe TIL White Star Line billed the families for uniforms of staff who died on the Titanic