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TIL: One of the very few surviving ships from the 1944 D-Day invasion is still in service as a car ferry in Connecticut

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698PX TIL that the symbol for Atheism is a diagram of an atom and members of the US military can have it put on their gravestones
6OyZ TIL it would take about 3000 years to send a message and hear a reply if SETI discovered intelligent life at KIC 8462852.
6bKW TIL the first woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science was a nun.
16DQW TIL that in addition to the Medal of Honor that Audie Murphy was awarded for his conduct in combat on January 26, 1945, he received 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Silver Stars, and a Distinguished Service Cross for five other heroic acts while in combat dating back to March 1944.
4XP4g TIL about Earth’s oldest known natural Nuclear Reactor, located in Oklo, Gabon. It's around two-billion years old, and was thought to have been active for several thousand years. Its average power output was 100 kilowatts, enough to run a few dozen toasters.