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TIL that all pandas in the world are on loan from China, and when a baby Panda is born, by agreement, it is sent back to China to help expand the gene pool. The baby pandas are shipped back by FedEx.

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b9roN TIL 17-yr-old Wolf Cukier found a new planet 3 days into a summer NASA internship. From space telescope data, he detected something blocking starlight, which was the shadow from a planet about 6.9 times larger than Earth. He doesn't get to name the planet, but he got a discount on a NASA jacket.
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