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TIL a Venezuelan navy ship sank after trying to ram a cruise ship

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9wJ46 TIL in 🇮🇪 the TV licence man can entre your home without a warrant
LQBNP TIL that NASA proposed in 2017 that a "magnetic shield" placed between the Sun & Mars (Mars Lagrange point L1) could protect Mars' Atmosphere from being stripped away by solar wind.
Wk98N TIL in 2016 a 155 year old mousetrap caught a mouse after it had sneaked in to a Berkshire museum
oDwL TIL that the first person to spot a flying saucer, didn’t himself describe its shape as a saucer. But said the objects moved erratically: “like a saucer if you skip it across the water”. And was misinterpreted by the media.
XELmX TIL that during a 1973 Rolling Stones tour of Australia Keith Richards lived with a single mother and her son for a week, taking care of the baby while the mother was at work stating that "There's somebody in a suburb in Melbourne who doesn't even know I wiped his ass.".