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TIL Omicron Persei is a real star about 1000 light years away from Earth

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1XOO TIL the Director of the FBI keeps a copy of the Wiretap for MLK on his desk as a reminder of past mistakes.
m15pP TIL Monotremes are a very strange order of mammals that lay eggs but nurse their young with milk. Living members are only echidnas and platypuses.
a8Aw0 TIL Though commonly thought to be owned by no-one, 7 countries have made territorial claims to Antarctica, including Australia, UK, New Zealand, and France. The US does not acknowledge it.
6Ekem TIL the band The Vapors were so sure their song “Turning Japanese” would be a huge hit that they intentionally released a different single ahead of it, so they wouldn’t be thought of as a one-hit-wonder.
QJK16 TIL In 2009 Sunagor launched what they claim to be the world's most powerful commercially available binoculars, going up to 160x magnification with a diameter of 70mm objectives