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TIL about "Geostationary Orbit" where satellites match the rotation of the earth and stay above a fixed point on the earth's surface

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B4gr TIL a baboon named Jack worked as a railroad signalman for 9 years in South Africa and never made a mistake.
4koxw Today I learned that the Ancient Greco-Roman practise of placing coins in the eyes or mouth of the deceased as payment for Charon was still practised in Cambodia recently under a different religious belief.
gW6W TIL that the initial probability of getting shot in the first round in Russian Roulette is not 1 in 6 , since the weight of the bullet makes the spinning cylinder more likely to stop with the bullet at the bottom.
LkBQZ TIL in 2007 police seized a photo of two nude children from Elton John's art collection as part of a child pornography investigation
9YZvX TIL of Philippe Servaty, a Belgian journalist who photographed himself having sex with over 80 girls in Morocco after having promised to take them to Europe. He then he ditched them and published the photos online. Many of the women were incarcerated, killed, or committed suicide.