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TIL, that nearly 2 million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined in hands for call of a freedom from USSR

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WvA TIL NASA often shows the movie “Armageddon” as part of its management training program and asks its new staff to find as many scientific-inaccuracies as they can (there are at least 168).
BAkK TIL that the woman who (at age 11) suggested they name the newly-discovered trans-Neptunian celestial body “Pluto” lived long enough to see the International Astronomical Union demote Pluto to the status of “dwarf planet”, 76 years later.
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