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TIL there is no known Chinese art depicting the panda bear that predates the 20th century.

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rPv0 TIL NASA and the German Aerospace Center shoved a big ass telescope inside a 747 so it could work above the clouds.
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vmOK TIL in 1981, Pope John Paul II, survived multiple close-range gun shot wounds, and went to visit the shooter in prison, where he forgave him. The shooter recently returned to the scene of the shooting to place flowers on the pope’s tomb.
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