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TIL: Today’s average teenagers know vastly more about the Milky Way and other galaxies than professional astronomers of 100 years ago.

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d8GBZ TIL the one-way speed of light has never been measured, and light could theoretically travel at different speeds in different directions
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MGWK TIL the 3 snowiest major cities in the world are all in Japan