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TIL it is against federal law to deceptively fill a container with less than its capacity

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GAAb5 TIL that the Voyager and Pioneer probes are on course to pass by several stars in the far future - some within one light-year's distance. The Voyager probes carry messages/music/photos from Earth, while the Pioneer probes have a map of the solar system and a depiction of naked humans.
wJa8 TIL the reason Van Halen had the “No brown M&Ms” clause was to ensure the promoter had read every single word in the contract, for the band and crew’s safety.
kJLY4 TIL that Jack Black's mom was Judith Love Cohen, a NASA engineer who helped create the abort-guidance system that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. Also according to one obituary, she went to the office the day Jack was born and took a printout of a problem with her, that she solved later that day.
ZZ6Y TIL The sum of odd numbers starting at 1 is always a square number.
ADeao Til that military working dogs used by the US in Vietnam were either left behind or euthanized, mostly the latter.