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TIL of the 2009 Satellite Collision: the first time two satellites collided at hypervelocity

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6EN1Q TIL Rob Lowe, Charlie Sheen, Robert Downey Jr., and Sean Penn all went to school together
XEd86 TIL that there is an international event known as "Field Day". It's held on weekends in June ever since 1933, where about 30,000 civilians just talk to each other over different styles of radios to maintain emergency preparedness.
nJP9 TIL Scrubs is based of a real life JDs’ (named Dr. Jonathan Doris) experiences as a resident. His name and those of the other medical advisors form a basis for JD’s, Turk’s and Molly Clock’s names in the show.
4Yjw TIL “The Book of Abraham”, a book supposedly translated by Joseph Smith for The Book of Mormon, was debunked by Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists as ancient funerary texts
91jQ TIL that when Theodore Roosevelt’s parents were unsatisfied with his and the other children’s command of German, they shipped them off to live in Dresden for 5 months with a German family