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TIL Canada is part of the European Space Agency

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4kpNw TIL that sandworms are real, grow several feet long, and even resemble the creatures from Dune (or vice versa)
VBMb0 TIL that the 1972 videogame Pong by Atari, which was the first commercially successful videogame in history, was built entirely from analog circuitry. In other words, it didn’t make use of a single line of code
l1nN TIL Junk Mail Companies Are Charged If You Send The Junk Mail Back
GgJ5 TIL Bill Clinton lost the nuclear launch codes for several months
bxX4 TIL there is a flying unit of the United States Air Force; The 53d Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (AFRC), also known by its nickname, Hurricane Hunters, that flies into tropical storms and hurricanes for the specific purpose of directly measuring weather data in and around those storms.