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TIL that Google made a detailed, interactive map of the galaxy in HTML5, just to see if they could.

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kOrge TIL that a closed bedroom door increases your chances of surviving a house fire by an extreme amount.
e0x4J TIL The Queen of England has only ever broken protocol for The Changing Of The Guard once. On 9/12/2001, the day after The September 11th attacks on The World Trade Center in The United States. Instead of The English National Anthem being played during the change, it was the US National Anthem.
Nm5N TIL that the earliest surviving depiction of Jesus portrays him as a donkey on a cross.
QDld TIL Claudette Colvin was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation, 9 months before Rosa Parks, but was not used as a figurehead for the civil rights movement because she was an unmarried, pregnant teenager.
BA0L TIL that India sent a spacecraft to Mars for $74 million - less than it cost to make the movie ‘Gravity’