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TIL NASA wants to make Interstellar travel possible within the next 100 years.

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D1YLe TIL Every nation in the world allows its citizens to divorce under some conditions except for the Philippines and Vatican City
yVOWM TIL animals were routinely jailed, tried, convicted, and executed in Medieval France…and pigs apparently ate babies.
wLjMY TIL In Sri Lanka, reservoirs built more than thousand years ago are still used today
1pxr TIL that a man was mauled by a bear, partially buried by friends then woke up and hiked like 200 miles back to camp and survived.
N78N1 TIL that the Apollo Guidance Computer, used in the moon landings, had 64 Kilobytes of memory and a .043 Megahertz processor. The iPhone 11 has 4 Gigabytes of memory and a 2.5 Gigahertz processor, more than 58,000 times as powerful.