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TIL Kepler-62e is one of several recently discovered water world planets in the habitable zone of its parent star

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69PE7 TIL that Svante Pääbo, the 2022 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, is the son of Sune Bergström, who is also a Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1982).
R76Dj TIL that headers of every .exe in the world starts with letters M and Z, which are the initials of Mark Zbikowski who was hired by Steve Balmer in 1981 to work on MSDOS
JlWm TIL the Oh My God Particle, an ultra high energy particle (a billion times more energy than the LHC’s output) that travels so absurdly fast, time dilation dictates that it would have experienced 16 days of time since the beginning of the universe
m15Vx TIL that Zheng He (Cheng Ho) was a Muslim admiral who made seven diplomatic voyages to East Africa as far as Malindi (near Mombasa) between 1405 and 1433 during China's early Ming dynasty.
wLZX7 TIL before Japan surrendered to end WW2, the US armed forces ordered over 1 million Purple Heart medals in anticipation of a difficult land invasion. That stock is still being used today.