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TIL The Big Bang Theory was proposed by a Catholic Priest.
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TIL that the Voyager engineers calculated over 10,000 launch windows so that encounters between the craft and the planets on its trajectory didn't happen during Thanksgiving or Christmas, allowing them to stay home for the holidays
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TIL about Spacecraft cemetery, the oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die. The area is roughly centered on Point Nemo —location farthest from any land, International Space Station is slated to end up there upon "retirement" and join other 263 disposed satellites.
E1Ard
TIL that although Japan was allied with Nazi Germany and Italy during World War II, they secretly supported Poland, going as far as helping Poland evacuate a gold reserve from German-occupied territory and sheltering Polish Jews fleeing the occupation, even after Poland declared war on them in 1941.
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TIL Chocolate ice cream was invented first, before Vanilla.
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TIL the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán was the largest city in the Americas with over 200,000 people. It was built on a man-made island in the middle of a lake - connected to shore by 3 causeways. It contained huge pyramids, floating gardens, aqueducts and canals. It was destroyed by the Spanish in 1521