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TIL that NASA is planning to send a submarine to explore the methane northern sea of Titan, Kraken.

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XEGl6 TIL 4 year old kids ask up to 400 questions in one day!
Me6GB TIL: The actual phrase is "Houston, we've had a problem"
YYp7 TIL Franklin D. Pierce, 14th President of the United States, was asked what he would do next as he was leaving office. He replied, “There’s nothing left [to do] but get drunk.” Twelve year later, he died from cirrhosis of the liver.
OkK7 TIL soldiers in WWII made simple radios using a razorblade and pencil as the diode, dubbing them Foxhole Radios.
grWx8 TIL about South Africa's Meerkat Radio Telescope Observatory and their impressive efforts to capture the heart of the Milky Way galaxy using radio waves.