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TIL that because of the Universe's expansion, a signal from an event happening at present will never reach the Earth if the event is more than 16 billion light years away

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g4Mb TIL: Alabama football coach is the highest paid public employee in the United States.
Z1dR TIL in the early ‘80s (before the HIV epidemic), there was a popular brand of appetite suppressant candy called “Ayd’s”. Their unfortunate marketing slogan? “Lose weight with Ayd’s!!”.
wLv4M TIL it is thought that the genes for light skin appeared in Anatolia (the westernmost protrusion of Asia) by about 8,500 years ago, & only became widespread in Europe by about 5,000 years ago.
lokvr TIL that in 1977 the FDA made a policy to exclude "all women of childbearing potential" from clinical trials after thalidomide (an anti-nausea drug used in pregnancy) caused detrimental birth defects.
9Yp1M TIL a 10 year old boy in China spent 2 years collecting 160,000 plastic bottles, raising $2,700. He donated all this money, and his own savings of $30, to orphans of AIDS victims.