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TIL The Twilight Saga is a higher-grossing movie franchise than the DC Extended Universe

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kOm7B TIL that 63 years after its launch on March 17, 1958, Vanguard 1 is the oldest satellite still orbiting Earth. Weighing only 3.2 pounds and with a diameter of 6.5 inches, Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, derided it as "the grapefruit satellite".
vl5K TIL that when asked why his heroes defeated villains with the last bullet in their guns Gardner answered: “Every time I say ‘Bang’ in a story I get three cents. If you think I’m going to finish a battle while my hero still has fifteen cents worth of unexploded ammunition in his gun, you’re nuts”.
D1k9g TIL Bon Scott of AC/DC once tried to join the Australian Army, but was rejected on the grounds of being "socially maladjusted".
KOoa9 TIL, numbers that are the product of two prime numbers (e.g. 4, 6, 9, 10, etc.) are called semiprimes, and sometimes they can be the squares of prime numbers. Semiprime numbers have no composite numbers as factors other than themselves, which is another reason why they are called semiprimes.
6yQw TIL Kim Jong-un’s older brother Kim Jong-nam was supposed to be their father’s heir until he tried to sneak out of North Korea to visit Disneyland.