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TIL that Dox is a is a white dwarf having an atmosphere of almost pure oxygen.

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VZWQ TIL that some movie sword replicas are built into the iron throne in Game of Thrones, for example Gandalfs Sword Glamdring.
wLWJ TIL Curiosity’s minimum uplink rates to Earth are 160bits/sec and 800bits/sec, depending on the antenna it is targeting on Earth.
Bre4r TIL some blind people can understand speech that is almost three times faster than the fastest speech sighted people can understand. Research suggests that a section of the brain that normally responds to light is re-mapped in blind people to process sound.
5YD58 TIL the world has a daddy issue
p8YG TIL: There is and artist in Washington DC who painted self portraits after taking every type of drug.