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TIL space junk destroys around one satellite each year

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ybMp TIL that the 442nd Infantry Regiment, composed almost entirely of Japanese-Americans whose families were interned, became the most decorated unit in the history of the US army during World War II.
4XdMo TIL that nearly half of all Vietnamese people have the same last name, making it almost impossible to trace an individual's heritage further than one or two generations
1OJ8 TIL Robin Williams was responsible for paying all of Christopher Reeve’s hospital bills that his insurance didn’t cover as a result of a promise that the two had made back in college. Best friends forever.
woM06 TIL Eliot Indian Bible (1663), It was the first Bible translated into a Native American language on the continent, carried out by John Eliot financed by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England and with the help of natives Cockenoe, John Sassamon, Job Nesuton and James Printer.
RO5w TIL Canada has sold hundreds of millions of tons of asbestos to developing and 3rd world countries with no regulations against the cancer causing substance with no warning, while knowing fully well the dangers of the product.