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TIL the most complex word in the English dictionary is the word ‘set’ with over 430 definitions in the Oxford English dictionary

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rRvme TIL one theory for why we haven’t discovered extraterrestrial life is that Earth is early to the party. Over the next 100 trillion years before the last star burns out, 92% of Earth-like planets that could foster life elsewhere have yet to be born.
nea4r Today I learned that there is a restaurant in New York that doesn’t employ professional chefs, instead every day a grandmother from a different country designs a menu that honors her native cuisine
VMogk TIL of Bobbie the Wonder Dog, who walked a distance of at least 2,551 miles (4,105 km) through plains, desert, and mountains in the winter to return home to his family, swimming in rivers and even crossing the Continental Divide in the coldest part of winter.
meeO TIL a 4 year old boy ran away from home and become the lead of a wolf pack after he provided them with food. He lived with the wolves for 2 years, was caught by police, and later served in the Russian Army.
6EyPQ TIL that Hughes engineers swung a satellite around the Moon and approached earth from a 'stealthy' direction, "downwards from the Moon rather than up from the ground, the way we typically think of missile launches by aggressor nations."