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TIL Australia is wider than the moon

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78PVM TIL that in 1969, the technology did not exist to fake the moon landing
bxr9 TIL: The Navajo code is the only spoken military code never to have been deciphered. During WWII, since only 30 non-Navajo people could understand Navajo, the US used Navajos as code talkers. They could encode, transmit, and decode a three-line message in 20 seconds, versus 30 minutes for machines.
oRKE TIL That Bing Crosby “loved marijuana” and suggested to his son that he smoke instead of drink
aymN TIL that our galaxy plus a few more are trapped in this thing called the local group that only makes up 0.00000000001 percent of the observable universe and because of the nature of the expanding universe, we’ll never be able to leave the local group. Even with light speed travel.
epyeg TIL Two of the founding members of the Allman Brothers Band died in Motorcycle accidents 3 blocks apart almost exactly 1 year apart from each other.