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TIL Earth has 7 Quasi-Satellites. Quasi-Satellites are like Satellites (Moon), but their orbits lie outside the planet's Hill sphere, a region in which it dominates the attraction of satellites.

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4XKl6 TIL that Benjamin Lay, an early Quaker abolitionist, walked into the 1738 annual meeting of Quakers and during an abolition speech plunged a sword into a bible he had hollowed out and filled with a bladder full of red fruit juice. To horrified onlookers, the Bible appeared to be bleeding.
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