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TIL of NASA's upcoming Dragonfly mission, in which NASA will launch a nuclear powered drone weighing half a ton to Saturn's moon Titan. The plan is that the nuclear powered drone will fly around on Titan, scouting its terrain while searching for complex and prebiotic chemistry.

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78wm7 TIL that in 2023, a team of doctors in Boston treated brain malformation in a baby while it was still in womb, by using ultrasound guidance, a needle, and tiny coils that were placed directly into the abnormal blood vessels to stop blood flow.
OoKLL TIL in 1983 Stevie Nicks starred in Hands Off!: A Unique New System of Self Defence Against Assault for the Women of Today. Written by Bob Jones, an Australian martial arts expert who worked security for Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, Joe Cocker, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and other big names.
eQYL TIL Burger King in Helsinki has an in-store sauna
X0pY6 TIL that Toronto's Yonge-University subway line carries over 670,000 people on an average weekday; which is nearly twice the total number of people who ride the 8 lines of the Chicago "L".
0J1L TIL in 2001 the Taliban in Afghanistan dynamited and destroyed the two largest standing Buddhist statues in the world, both over 100 feet tall and more than 1400 years old.