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TIL there's a spinning, floating island in Argentina

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RQE7 TIL that in the 1960’s, for fear of having their submarine communication cables cut by the Soviets, the US military sent 480,000,000 copper needles into space to secure their communications infrastructure. The needles acted as a mirror for radio waves, enabling communication between distant sites.
9mjD TIL a dog caused 3 deaths when it fell out of a window. It landed on a woman, killing her, shocked onlookers were hit by a bus and one died, and a man who saw it all had a fatal heart attack.
oRdNW TIL that in 1930 San Francisco had the world's busiest ferry terminal. 30 years later none were running.
0EKM TIL that a California man committed a murder during a robbery and got away with it for four years. He had a tattoo artist recreate the crime scene in a detailed tattoo on his chest. When he was later caught, investigating detectives described the tattoo as a “crime scene sketch and a confession.”
VMln0 TIL anyone who immigrated to America from 1776 to 1881 — when 87% of arrivals came from northwest Europe — had virtually no legal restrictions. Restrictions only began in 1882, when "too many Asians" began to enter, which led to a ban on Chinese citizens.