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TIL China built a massive solar farm shaped like a giant panda!

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YpMeW TIL Olympus Mons on Mars, the tallest known mountain in the solar system, is so large at its base that an observer on its peak wouldn’t know he was standing on a mountain because its slope would be obscured by the curvature of the planet itself.
nWneW TIL about the Interrobang symbol
x6XOB TIL about Jane Wallis Burrell, the first CIA agent to die in service of the agency. She died on a runway in France in 1948 just 110 days after the Agency’s creation. She does not have a star on the memorial wall, as she did not qualify as the plane was commercially flown.
loLOA TIL Maine has 4,600+ coastal islands, not to mention some inland too. Maine’s total coastline, including islands, is over 5,000 miles long - long enough to stretch from Maine to Alaska
P1Y1n TIL in 1950 the Boyscouts of America ran a 40th anniversary campaign called "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty" where they sent ~200 copper replicas of the Statue of Liberty around the US. Despite being over 8' tall and weighing 260lb, many have been lost and now only ~100 can be accounted for.