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TIL that light isn't the fastest thing. The expansion of the universe is significantly faster, perhaps even a million times faster!

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wLdK6 TIL about UVB-76, a strange radio station that has been broadcasting numbers from Russia since 1973
Oo7We TIL that in a 1983 interview with Rolling Stone, David Bowie said his public declaration of bisexuality was "the biggest mistake I ever made" and that "I was always a closet heterosexual."
YP1v TIL That up to 80% of women in Pakistani prisons are there because they were charged with adultery for being raped
yVYl8 TIL the Whitworth rifle, used during the Civil War, is considered the first "sniper rifle", accurate at distances up to 1800m (2000 yd) when equipped with a 4x scope
N7D8P TIL some of James Doohan’s (Scotty the Engineer from the original Star Trek series) ashes are hidden in the floor of the International Space Station after being smuggled there in 1998.