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TIL - Probes and other spacecraft have a one in a billion chance of hitting something in the asteroid belt due to the low density of it.

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LQlep TIL about Lake Agassiz, a proglacial lake that was larger than all the Great Lakes combined
l7lNN TIL that snails can sleep for three years.
1ayxV TIL That the Methuselah star maybe older than the estimated age of the universum.
NXBKM TIL, Daryl Hall met John Oates when they both took cover in an elevator from a gang shootout at a Philadelphia music hall
LQlZm TIL about the city of Palmanova in Italy, that is a 9-pointed star-shaped fortress town that took 200 years to build from 1593 under the Venetian Republic to 1813 under the Napoleonic domination and it's included in UNESCO’s World Heritage Site list