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TIL that it's not a crime to escape prison in many countries

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E1rWX TIL On a trip to Nepal, Apollo astronaut Stu Roosa met Nepalese who believe the spirits of their dead reside on the Moon. Roosa could not understand why a few of the local citizens treated him like a god, nor why they were distressed when he told them he saw no one else on the Moon
nWEvo TIL many of the fundamental elements of modern computers, including windows, hypertext, graphics, video conferencing, the computer mouse and word processors were unveiled for the first time in a single presentation.
40ob TIL a minor character in the Marvel Universe has fought and beaten such household names as Deadpool, Dr. Doom, Thanos, and Galactus. Her main superpower is the army of squirrels she commands.
QJn9X TIL that William Burroughs’ book “Naked Lunch” was written while high. (And banned under US obscenity laws)
8ab44 TIL that there are 10^10^10^122 number of parallel universes with different laws of physics, different dimensions or even with different colours which we can't see.