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TIL in Sep. 2022, a satellite was launched into an asteroid and changed its shape and orbit.

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9LG6 TIL Alexis Ohanian said about Digg v4 “You chose to grow with venture capital… this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling. It’s cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg, which was to “give the power back to the people.”
9XB7 TIL when Eddie Van Halen recorded the guitar solo in Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” the speakers literally caught on fire
yLLa TIL that the world’s population went from 1.5 billion to 6.1 billion in only one century.
1aBxr TIL about anti-natalism, the philosophical position that assigns negative value to birth. Anti-natalists argue that bringing a person into an existence in which they will undoubtedly experience pain and/or discouragement is inherently morally wrong and selfish.
DQYle TIL 80% of the moon rock mass picked up by Apollo astronauts in the NASA collection remains stored in a pristine condition for future scientific study