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TIL Earth is the densest planet in the solar system.

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AZY4 TIL Thomas Jefferson conducted the first legitimate archaeological dig in history and proved that the massive burial mounds were created by Native Americas, not the “lost race” of white people previously thought.
56EQ TIL of the mushroom called “Green Pepe” that exists on the Bonin Islands near Japan. “Green Pepe” is named such because it glows bioluminescent green.
XE1XX TIL that Canada consumes the most doughnuts and has the most doughnut shops per capita of any country in the world
nebRW TIL in 1990 the West German government received a message from the Soviet general Geli Batenin, offering to return Kaliningrad. The offer was never seriously considered by the Bonn government, who saw reunification with the East as its priority.
5WBp TIL that preventing an abort of the Apollo 11 mission has been attributed to the work of Margaret Hamilton, the lead flight software designer for Project Apollo. She was 31 when the lunar module landed on the moon, running her code, and is credited for coining the term “software engineering.”