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TIL Only 7 people have been made honorary United States citizens.

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N7XvJ TIL they clean the Taj Mahal with mud
VBwnk TIL that it took a month for Ernő Rubik to solve a wooden block prototype of the Rubik's Cube
79vP TIL that Microsoft bought all the rights to a Corbis stock photo called Bliss, better known as the Windows XP default wallpaper, for over $100k, making it the second largest amount of money ever paid to a photographer for a single photograph at the time of sale.
xVnyk TIL the drums in “Never Let Me Down Again” by Depeche Mode were sampled from the drums in “Rhymin & Stealin” by the Beastie Boys, which we’re in turn sampled from “When The Levee Breaks” by Led Zeppelin.
AD4ed TIL the OSIRIS-REx asteroid lander did not just land on an asteroid as it flew past, it's able to return to Earth and is actively returning a sample from the asteroid and is due to land in 2023.