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TIL Europa is the smoothest object known in the solar system

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1aLYP TIL that Nintendo dropped technical support for the NES and SNES in 2007. These systems came out in 1985 and 1991 respectively.
Oopbe TIL that the USS Arizona and USS Utah, two ships which were both destroyed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, still continue to leak oil over 80 years later
vwXr TIL that a drunk North Korean man passed out on a wooden board to find himself in South Korea the next day as a flood washed him and the board to an island controlled by South Korea.
rRjXW TIL that axolotls are basically real life pokemon that can morph into salamanders when exposed to excessive levels of iodine
5YnJR TIL while only being roughly the size of North Carolina, the island of Java sustains a population of 141 million. Comparatively the population of Japan is 145.9 million and three times the size in area.