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TIL the Curiosity rover is powered by a chunk of onboard plutonium.

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BL0k TIL that Bryan Henderson is so dedicated in removing the phrase “comprised of” off the entire Wikipedia up to the point that he has made 47,000 edits in the last 8 years and has written a 6,000 word essay in his user page explaining why he thinks it’s an egregious error.
xpjb TIL In the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, Britain had to use one third of its entire national budget to buy all the slaves so that they could be freed.
MbK7 TIL that “The Elf on the Shelf” is criticized for teaching kids that it’s okay to be spied on, another tool of the surveillance state
J0a1 TIL of Agnes Milowka, a renowned cave diver who filmed stunts for the movie Sanctum. Not long after filming a scene for the movie in which an extra air tank is left behind in order to squeeze through a tight cave passage, she died after doing the exact same thing in a real cave.
OovJ6 TIL that in 2008 was discovered the Sputnik virophage, a virus that infects other viruses, the first known case of hyperparasitodoism between viruses.