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TIL NASA recovered metal from the World Trade Center and used it on Martian rovers as a tribute to those fallen on the 9/11 attacks

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4XPPa TIL that July 12th is arguably the birthday of England, as it was on 12 July 927 that King Athelstan's overlordship of the Kingdom of York was recognized, making him the first ruler of all the territory of what we now know as England
0dd5L TIL film star Kay Kendall's cancer diagnosis was kept from her, she died believing that she was suffering from an iron deficiency
0mG5 TIL North Korea has opened restaurants in various Asian countries (and reopened one in Amsterdam) as a way to make money for the regime
xVWWB TIL 17% of the GNP of Isle of Man comes from gambling and insurance.
grOoL TIL Enya's music "Only Time" re-entered the Billboard Top 100 reaching number 43, thirteen years after the original release thanks to it being featured in Volvo's Epic Split commercial with Jean-Claude Van Damme