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TIL The most accurate depiction of a black hole ever created was for the movie “Interstellar”. “It’s the product of a year of work by 30 people and thousands of computers.”

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0wRoN TIL Membership applications by the UK to join the EU were refused in 1963 and 1967 because the French President of the time Charles de Gaulle doubted the UK’s political will.
Y8DP TIL: one of the top things people regret when they are dying is that they worked too hard.
l7Nv7 TIL that the most expressive cat is the manul, and it is more commonly known as Pallas's cat. They can be found in the grasslands of Central Asia.
JO01 TIL Texas has its own dialect of German, and it’s close to extinction
lXDB TIL on August 5, 1944, one of the biggest jail-breaks in history involved hundreds of Japanese POWs attempting to escape an Australian prisoner camp. The Japanese considered the Australians weak because they treated the prisoners well. 234 of the Japanese were killed and another 108 wounded.