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TIL There are more ants alive today, than hours of time since the Big Bang.

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ZpaZ4 TIL that Jerry Garcia is playing the steel guitar on the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 1970 hit, "Teach Your Children." He did it in exchange for them helping the Grateful Dead improve their vocal harmony.
J1RZ8 TIL the longest theoretical sight line at ground level on earth is Hindu-tagh in China to Mt. Dankova in Kyrgyzstan at 538 Km, while the longest photographed sight line is from the Spanish Pyrenees to French Alps at 443 Km.
Lk8Rm TIL That one month in lunar terms is called a "moonth' as it takes 29.53 days to orbit the earth
BPgd TIL that in 1986, nurse Sandra Clarke could not stay with a patient who asked her to stay. When she returned, the patient had died alone. In 2001, she was key in starting No One Dies Alone, a program where volunteers sit with terminal patients who have no one else. The program is now world-wide.
VDg0 TIL an American soldier was killed 60 seconds before the WWI Armistice came into effect, after he charged and shot at a German roadblock. The Germans knew about the coming peace and tried to wave him off.