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TIL that Comet West (aka “The Great Comet”) may not return for at least another 6.5 million years, according to estimates.

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mvnE TIL despite being outnumbered by japanese natives by 4551%, per capita Africans are responsible for 3.5 times as much crime as Japanese natives in Japan
Z8pX4 TIL the popular programming language "Python" is named after the comedy group "Monty Python"
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