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TIL only one spacecraft has ever entered orbit around two separate extraterrestrial objects. The Dawn mission entered the orbit of Vesta, the second-largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, and then left orbit after a year and traveled to Ceres.

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exd5 TIL that, as a fraction of their income, Americans spend less on food than residents of any other country.
7r47P TIL a woman accidentally inhaled a condom during oral sex, which lodged into her lungs and caused it to collapse.
QNZDd TIL in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, there is a giant statue of Santa holding a butt plug.
EAY7 TIL the first Alien movie was originally going to end with the alien winning
lxmN TIL that Winston Churchill drew up plans for a surprise attack against the then-allied Soviet Union. Dubbed “Operation Unthinkable,” the plan would have rearmed up to 100,000 former Nazi soldiers and kicked off World War 3 almost before World War 2 had ended.