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TIL the James Webb Space Telescope has a focal length of 131400 mm (131.4 m)

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X00Gr TIL 90% of sub-Saharan Africa's cultural heritage is in the possession of Western collections
691JX TIL that the early Hardy Boys books were so dark and cynical in tone, that they received an official rebuke from the publisher.
rRpW4 TIL Evaniidae, better known as Ensign Wasps are a type of wasp which doesn't sting humans and are a sign of roaches living nearby which they prey on by laying eggs in roach eggs and their larvae eats the roach eggs.
aw040 TIL "Baby Jessica", who fell down a well in October of 1987 and was rescued after 58 hours, received $1.2 million for a trust fund from multiple donations. She used part of those funds at age 25 to purchase a home, but lost most of what was left in the stock market crash of 2008.
PYLlg TIL that in the past year there were an average of over 9700 planes carrying 1.2 million people in the sky at any given time. That would make the skies the 156th most populous country in the world,right between Estonia and East Timor.