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TIL a kilometer-sized asteroid that struck Earth 800,000 years ago has a crater that remains undiscovered

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8aWxb TIL of Peter Buxtun, an epidemiologist at the Public Health Service who after filing two protests with his superiors was the man who blew the whistle on the Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiment.t It would become front page news in the New York Times the next day and congressional hearings would be called.
D1MOe TIL NASA will pay you $19,000 to lay in bed for two months!
P1Dkw TIL there was staunch opposition when the EU gave feta cheese Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status as a Greek product as countries such as Denmark produced similar products, arguing the term had become generic.
R7YO9 TIL Until it became independent in 1991, Belarus, formerly known as Belorussia or White Russia, was the smallest of the three Slavic republics included in the Soviet Union. The territory that is now Belarus underwent partition and changed hands repeatedly
QNQ79 TIL Olivia Goldsmith, author of The First Wives Club died during a plastic surgery operation for a chin-tuck.