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TIL of the incredible rescue of a dead soviet space station in 1985

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E1J8d TIL: How NASA will land Perseverance rover on MARS using Sky Crane technology (Animation)
R7Gw4 TIL the probability of at least "Low-Level Intelligent Life" on other planets in the Milky Way is as high as 75%.
LklBd TIL Winston Churchill once said that one of life's four essentials was cold champagne and so he drank over 42,000 bottles of champagne during his lifetime(about two bottles a day). The other three essentials were hot baths, new peas and old brandy
R7rj TIL that people from Niger are called Nigeriens, whereas people from Nigeria are called Nigerians
eMjJ TIL that Pat Robertson diverted Rwandan Genocide aid to build a Diamond Mine in Liberia. The Virginia AG whose campaign received $35,000 from Robertson declined to prosecute.