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TIL of the Ovitz family, not only the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded but also the largest family (12 people ranging from a 15-month-old baby to a 58-year-old woman) to enter Auschwitz and survive intact

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b9xKN TIL that sometime in the distant future (2 billion years) we’ll be able to view the Andromeda galaxy in our night sky as it gets closer and eventually merges with the Milky Way.
wL85W TIL: A day on Earth was 6 hours long 4.5 Billion years ago.