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TIL about a soccer ball that survived the Challenger disaster in 1986. 30 years later it finally reached space and flew in the ISS for 173 days and almost 3000 trips around the earth.

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6EevX TIL that dolphins deliberately use toxic pufferfish to get high
1aW9W TIL When the creator of Plants Vs. Zombies refused to make their next game pay to win, Electronic Arts fired the creator.
7rg8O TIL that the word "Nazi" is actually German slang for "backwards peasant", a term that existed before the Nazi party. We used it as an insulting abbreviation the their actual name, Nationalsozialistische. Hitler hated being called a Nazi. Also, the origins of a bunch of other terms.
R7gm7 TIL there is no word for ‘love’ in the language of Luxembourg
b6Y57 TIL South Korea has been in the process of changing Capital city from Seoul to newly built Sejong since 2007. The construction of the city is expected to be completed in 2030.