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TIL space junk destroys around one satellite each year

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QD5E TIL In order to make it seem like the Nazi party was doing good things, the unemployment statistics from Germany stopped including women, Jews, and young men.
78YjX TIL of the Dunstable Swan Jewel. A gold & enamel swan brooch made in England or France in about 1400. It’s presumed to have been intended as a livery badge given by an important figure to his supporters; probably the future Henry V of England, who was Prince of Wales in 1399.
rdle TIL the first “Got Milk” commercial was directed by Michael Bay
MeMPK TIL that papaya seeds are an efficient long-term MALE contraceptive. In a study involving langur monkeys found no sperm in semen after 90 days of administration of papaya seed extract.
R5bp7 TIL that Louis IX of France, also known as Saint Louis, was viewed as “primus inter pares” (first among equals) among the kings and rulers of Europe as he commanded the largest army and ruled the largest and wealthiest kingdom, the centre of European art and intellectual thought at the time.