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TIL The girl who played young Amelia Pond is the real life cousin of the actress who played Amy Pond

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jNyWX TIL that the first generations of spy satellites, "Corona" and "Zenith", took photographs, then ejected canisters of photographic film which would descend back down into Earth's atmosphere. Corona capsules were retrieved in mid-air as they floated down on parachutes.
yGY8 TIL the FBI purposely facilitated a lot of the ‘terrorists’ they seemingly foiled
DQ5MV TIL that a Cirrus SR20 aircraft crashed into the Belaire Apartments in New York City on 2006
my7E TIL the recipe for Angostura Bitters is a closely guarded secret, with only one person, passed hereditarily, knowing the whole recipe.
grvV7 TIL Asteroids in the asteroid belt are not clustered so close together that a spaceship would have to maneuver through them. In fact, you'd have to go 960,000 kilometers from one asteroid before you found another one.