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TIL space junk destroys around one satellite each year

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Rl1 TIL Cracker Barrel got in trouble for segregation…in 2004
gN58 TIL of the deadliest volcanic eruption in history: the effects of the Icelandic volcano Laki killed 25% of the Icelandic population, at least 23,000 people in Britain, more deaths in Europe, freak weather for a year, and may have caused a famine in Egypt which killed 1/6th of Egypt’s population.
awnNL TIL that Alcoholics Anonymous does not have any organizational hierarchy and has been referred to as a ‘Benign Anarchy’.
4X8vX TIL Eric of Pomerania, King of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark became a pirate to make ends meet after losing his thrones
YpjmW TIL heroin was often smuggled into the united states on the corps of fallen soldiers