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Japan successfully landed an unmanned spacecraft on an asteroid, collected samples in 2005. The probe returned to earth in 2010.

Homer Simpson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame for the episode 'Homer at the Bat.'

In The Avengers (2012), in the end-credit scene, Thanos’s aid tells him “to challenge [humans] is to court death.” This is a nod to Thanos’s comic-book motive, which was to literally court/marry Lady Death.