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TIL Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have ever visited the ice giants Uranus and Neptune

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VMjL0 TIL Canada will keep a foreigner's fingerprints for 15 years on attempting to enter the country, or until the applicant is 100 should they be refused entry on criminal grounds.
DQpoj TIL in 1966, the Doors’ were lacking material, and so Jim Morrison asked the other band members to write a song. That same night, guitarist Robby Krieger wrote a song and titled it “Light My Fire.” It became their first ever hit, spent 3 weeks at #1 on Billboard, and launched the band to stardom.
xWZb TIL neither French Fries or Hash Browns from McDonald’s are vegetarian or vegan, both contain natural beef flavoring.
76PP TIL A swarm of 20,000 bees once followed a car for two days because their queen was trapped inside the car.
7mpM TIL that up until the 14th century a ceremony was practiced in the Catholic Church to unite together two people of the same sex (normally men) in church-recognized friendship.