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TIL the Death Star was actually designed before we could see the massive crater on Mimas, one of Saturn's moons, meaning its resemblance is purely coincidental.

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QJ80e TIL a chemical compound was found to make human "invisible" to mosquitoes, instead of repelling them
Gb61 TIL that colic does not mean the baby is fussy or just cries a lot. A baby with colic will cry for at least three hours straight, for more than three days a week, for three weeks in a row. No one is sure of the cause
m1WBv TIL about the "Tokyo Tower of Babel," a proposed 10 Kilometer tall tower that was designed to house up to 30 million people and was intended to be built in Tokyo Bay. If completed, it would have been the tallest structure in the world, but it remains an ambitious concept.
b6k0N TIL, the island state of Tasmania, shares a 85m long land boarder with the state of Victoria (part of the Australian mainland) due to a surveying error
rmKy TIL the existence of MI6, the agency with which James Bond works, wasn’t officially acknowledged by the British government until 1994