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TIL that the letter ‘J’ is the only letter NOT on the periodic table

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R7DW7 TIL: July 1st is Bobby Bonilla Day, the day in which the New York Mets pay Bobby Bonilla, a man who last played for them in 1999, $1.19 million until the year 2035
VMlRB TIL E.T. was originally written as a horror movie in which aliens kill others simply by the touch of a long, bony finger. Spielberg changed his mind and decided to make it a family-friendly film and later repurposed the horror concept for "Poltergiest".
N7JEe TIL: To identify the pilots guilty of "buzzing" (doing dangerously low-altitude fly-bys) of bases or populated areas, for decades many US military planes were marked with short unique I.D. codes painted-on with large letters. Such marks (different from serial numbers) came to be called BUZZ NUMBERs.
p8r14 TIL That only 3 people have died in space. Russian astronauts: Georgy Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev, Vladislav Volkov were all killed at the same time due to an undocking malfunction in 1971. Whilst there have been fatalities during take-off and re-entry, those 3 are the only to die IN space.
XprQ TIL that cows never existed in the wild and were domesticated from wild ox some 10,500 years ago