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GAYyG TIL NASA estimates that Voyager 1 will have enough power to continue communicating until 2025, 48 years after its launch. Its fuel for running the communications equipment, plutonium-238 dioxide, will have decayed too much to generate the required heat to keep them operating.
LkGBr TIL That the leading theory behind disappearance of the Malaysian airlines flight MH370 was that it was a murder suicide orchestrated by the pilot who was suffering from a bout of depression.
QNpPe TIL after the deaths by suicide of designer Kate Spade & celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain occurred a few days apart in 2018, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline received 65% more phone calls over the course of the following week. In addition, the Crisis Text Line saw a 116% increase in volume.
e07L5 TIL my university has a student food pantry to provide struggling students battling food insecurity. The pantry has seen and almost 500% increase in users and food distributed since it's opening year ('14-'15).
R5GNj TIL only one dog has been to both the North and South poles: Bothie, owned by explorers Ranulph & Ginnie Fiennes. And since dogs are now banned from Antartica, it's likely the feat will never be repeated.