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TIL “Dark side of the Moon” does not actually mean “dark”. We only see one side of the Moon from Earth and never see the other (tidal locking), but both sides have 2 weeks of sunlight followed by 2 weeks of night. Moon’s Dark/far side looks quite different than the side we see from Earth.

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