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TIL the United States runs a program with lasers and lunar reflectors that measure the distance to the moon, started in 1970 - with an accuracy better than 3 centimeters since the 1990s.

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Me1pb TIL Tesseract is the name of a real geometrical concept - it is a cube in 4-dimensional space. It is a 4D shape whose every face is a cube. Just like a cube can be unfolded into 6 squares in 2D space, a tesseract can be unfolded into 8 cubes in 3D space.
wRZP TIL that Saudi Arabia has been ruled by the same family for longer than the United States has been a country
97PG TIL white settlers in Mendocino County, California engaged in an “ethnic cleansing genocide” from 1856-1860 that wiped out 80% of the local Native American population.