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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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69BPJ TIL of high school student Michael Eugene Thomas, who in 1989 was choked to death by another kid, for his Air Jordan sneakers.
wjY7 TIL in the UK version of “Lilo and Stitch”, the scene of Lilo hiding in a clothes dryer was redrawn so that way Lilo’s hiding in a cupboard with a pizza box for a door to prevent little kids from imitating the act of hiding in a dryer.
LkXo0 TIL that cannons are also percussion instruments classified as "Pyrophones" because they are used when performing songs such as the 1812 Overture and For Those About To Rock.
v1jYD TIL the German folklore of Frau Perchta, a witch who would roam the German countryside for 12 days leading up to Christmas, leaving silver coins to good children and cut open the bellies and replace the organs of bad children with straw and pebbles.
lQ7r TIL In 1903, a barge tipped somewhere off the coast of Staten Island, sending most of its 7,700 silver-and-lead bars to the bottom. Most bars were recovered right away, but some 1,400 bars, valued at up to $20 million today were never found.