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TIL that in 1998 one satellite failed and it caused about 80% of the world’s pagers to stop working.

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D1Lpv TIL that if you shuffle a deck of cards it will be in your favor that it'll be the first time in history your deck of cards will be in that particular order.
NXLb6 TIL that barnacles have the biggest penis to body ratio of the entire animal kingdom
YJlx TIL that if NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea
EgprX TIL that Diana Ross's sister is a trailblazer in medicine. Barbara Ross-Lee was one of the few African-American women in a field dominated by white males in the 1970s and became the first African-American woman to lead a U.S medical school.
kVbW TIL the actor who played “Scotty” on Star Trek, James Doohan, was shot six times storming Juno beach on D-Day - 4 times in the leg, one in the chest and one through his finger.