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TIL that 6 million pounds of space dust settles on earth's surface every year.

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lmj7 TIL Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was the first woman to get a Ph.D in computer science
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7reGL TIL There's a PBS TV station in Upstate New York who has more Canadian viewership than American, and therefore signed off every night with the Canadian national anthem and then the U.S. national anthem.
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