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TIL that an engineer at NASA spent 15 years trying to become an astronaut and was rejected 14 times before finally being selected in 1998.

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nQko TIL that, according to an NYC medical examiner, “Your golden retriever might sit next to your dead body for days, starving, but the tabby won’t. Your cat will eat you right away, with no qualms at all.”
Lk01d Til the American Government tried to instill the values of home ownership in the American people with federal programs in 1917 to prevent the rise of communism as they believed people who owned their own homes had a stake in the capitalist system.
94m6 TIL that professional bowlers used to out-earn professional football and baseball players.
1D9D TIL HSBC processed cash for Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. At least $881m in drug trafficking money was laundered throughout HSBC accounts. The bank widened the windows at some branches to allow tellers to accept larger boxes of money.
9wWlX TIL about Planet 9, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of our solar system. The planet has not been directly observed, but the gravitational effects of the planet could explain the unique orbits of bodies beyond Neptune, which orbit the sun as a single cluster.