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TIL - there is an empty point in space where the gravity from the earth and the Sun is equal, and objects can orbit it as if there was something there.

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kJ4d TIL a ferry sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994. The ship and 852 passengers are still at the bottom of the sea, and it’s illegal to dive to it.
yvYl TIL that a man’s investments were prevented from growing to their full extent out of fear that they would exceed the value of the world.
mxRgy TIL that the Unicorn is the National Animal of Scotland.
WAZo TIL that the Apollo 15 astronauts left a 3 inch “fallen astronaut” statuette on the surface of the moon in 1971 to commemorate all the men and women who died in pursuit of space travel
Mg08 TIL every fig has a dead wasp in it.