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5Yx4D TIL in May 2022 the 'asteroid 2009 JF 1' will approach the earth dangerously close so that it can be seen in the sky. The NASA program D.A.R.T. is going to distract it from its course. An unlikely collision would have the power of 15 nuclear bombs. Let us hope that this rock will never hit us
9QxG TIL there is a man in India who claims he has gone the past 70 years without food or water. Once Indian military doctors kept him on 24 hour. Watch for 2 weeks and were unable to disprove his claims.
j6E5v TIL that XM4 5HQ is the UK postcode for Father Christmas, a leetspeak of "XMAS HQ"
a07y TIL The episode of the Simpsons where the kids are snowed in the school at Christmas was based on a true story that happened to one of the writers
R5jW7 TIL about the Caterpillar Club, an exclusive club for people who jump out of a failing aircraft and survive using a parachute.