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TIL that due to a time crunch, the Voyager engineers used aluminum foil bought from a store to protect the internal cabling from cosmic radiation

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J1mej TIL the origin of the name of Mount "Pilatus", overseeing Lucerne in Switzerland, has been a matter of debate and theories, which include Pontius Pilate being buried there or that the mountain looks like the belly of a large man/Pilate lying on his back.
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