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opmL TIL the largest known black hole has a diameter of 1 trillion km, more than 190 times the distance from the Sun to Pluto.
R1P8 TIL that Werner Heisenberg worked to develop an Atomic Bomb for Nazi Germany.Claiming that he deliberately attempted to misguide German efforts, transcripts of secret recordings after the war revealed however that it was actually ignorant of what was required to succeed.
R7wkl TIL that because there are no surviving specimens of the heavily armoured Korean "turtle ship", historians still debate about what the ships actually looked like, though most now agree that they were in fact turtle-shaped
OaNg TIL some Matrix fans believe that Neo’s special powers worked in the “real world” because the real world was another simulation, suggesting an Inception-esque “Matrix within a Matrix” system.
Xy8X TIL there is a professional Indian cricketer named ‘Napoleon Einstein’ and when asked about his unusual name, said: “We don’t believe in God. In our family, we’re rationalists. Other people are named Krishna and Ram after Gods, so we were named Einstein and Napoleon after great people.”