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TIL that last year a Japanese company launched a satellite into space that can artificially recreate a meteor shower. This spring it should reach the right position and the first test shower will be released over Hiroshima. They expect a colorful meteor shower visible in an area up to 200km wide.

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lZ75 TIL that if not for food coloring, Cheetos would be gray.
wLNgE TIL that the 1990s Beanie Babies craze led to a cottage industry of Beanie Babies related crime, including theft and forgery.
YpEZP TIL that the American Red Cross has updated their rules about who can donate blood, now allowing MSM, women who have sex with MSM, and former IV drug users to donate when they had been banned in the past.
nyGG TIL Canada had a Mach-2 fighter before any other country, but it was cancelled for political reasons. The engineers went to NASA and put Neil Armstrong on the Moon.
4Mdo TIL that the wife’s happiness is more important than her husband’s when it comes to keeping a happy, lasting marriage, in a study that surveyed older couples married for an average of 39 years.