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TIL that there’s an unknown object in the nearby galaxy m82 that started sending out radio waves. The emission doesn’t look like anything seen before

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QJQga Today I learned that Canadians say sorry so much that a law had to be passed saying that apologies aren't admissions of guilt.
6PPl TIL The US government is building a center to record all online information and communication on earth. It can house all the data on earth ~40 times over and is on the scale of yottabytes. 1 yottabyte=1 trillion terabytes. It is scheduled to be completed Sep. 2013
y11p TIL there was some controversy to the inclusion of Chuck Berry’s ‘Johnny B. Goode’ on the Voyager Golden Record. Carl Sagan was told that rock music was adolescent. Sagan responded, “There are a lot of adolescents on the planet.”
a8pmb TIL that Gordon Lightfoot released his famous ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" less than 10 months after the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior
W7QXL TIL that Vincent van Gogh was a failed missionary and art school dropout, suffered from psychotic episodes and delusions, drank and smoked heavily, spent time in psychiatric hospitals, lived with an alcoholic prostitute, and was a commercial failure when he died by suicide at age 37.