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TIL that Milky Way obstructs our view of around 20% of the extragalactic sky at visible wavelengths. That area is called the Zone of Avoidance and it is the reason humans do not have a complete picture of the extragalactic sky yet.

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WkL4B TIL that lesbian couples two and a half times more likely to get divorced than male same-sex couples
DQAkP TIL 37% of the entire US government budget was pension payments to veterans of the Civil War by 1894.
peOO TIL in 1933, a Japanese School Girl committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater.
ZpL44 TIL that Suzuki sells a car in India which does not have power windows, central locking, a radio, and even power steering and A/C. It also has black mirrors, door handles and bumpers. The car costs less than $10,000.
epNkJ TIL about a fabled school for black magic in Romania called The Scholomance. One famous attendee was Count Dracula.