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TIL Since 1965, a nuclear reactor has been orbiting the Earth. It’s broken now but will continue its orbit for another 4000 years

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DRor TIL the heir to the Baskin-Robbins family fortune turned down his inheritance, moved to a small cabin, and swore off dairy after both co-founders died from diseases he believed were connected to their ice cream consumption
DyLg TIL that comic book characters come back to life after dying so often that they are aware of the likely resurrections. Professor X said “in mutant heaven there are no pearly gates, but instead revolving doors.” After one X-Man died, his daughter refused to mourn him because he’d be alive again.
Mjjb TIL According to researchers, there will be no seafood left to catch by 2048, except for jellyfish, which will thrive in the new, collapsed ecosystem.
e0L1D TIL the Endurance Expedition crew was shipwrecked and stranded in the Antarctic in 1914 for two years, and miraculously the entire crew survived.
X9Mj TIL A sleeping Killer Whale (Orca) pod (approx. 6-30 whales in a pod) breathes in unison - they form a tight circle, then surface for air and re-submerge as one, while sleeping!