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TIL on November 24, 2021, NASA launched its DART Mission to test propulsion technology designed to alter the course of an asteroid. The unmanned mission will intercept a moonlet of the asteroid Didymos in late September 2022, attempting to change the orbital period and thus change Didymos’ momentum

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QNvE9 TIL I learned in 1973 a man carrying guns and a bomb robbed a bank in Kenora, Ontario. Upon leaving the bank he was killed a police sniper detonating the bomb. To this day his identity has never been determined.
wLRa7 TIL that at the age of 10, a boy named Alexander Bell asked his father if could have a middle name. As a result, on his 11th birthday, he became Alexander Graham Bell of telephone fame.
Y7RZ7 TIL 18th century slaves escaped Jamaican plantations and created "Nanny Town", a village in the mountains said to be magically protected by their leader Granny Nanny
eWPD TIL that the western world has donated over US$1 trillion dollars to Africa in the last 50 years.
691pZ TIL Ball's Pyramid is the tallest volcanic stack in the world, home to last known wild population of the Lord Howe Island stick insect