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TIL The Doomsday Clock is currently closer to midnight than any other time in history since its inception.

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p8aGO TIL that for 23 years, a Dallas family sent flowers to NASA mission control in Houston, before each of the 110 Shuttle missions since they resumed following the Challenger explosion.
o6Yr TIL Gargoyles are designed to spout water; though often called gargoyles, other statues on gothic buildings are properly called chimeras or grotesques.
JYkYV TIL that Jamie Lee Curtis and her entire family were cut out of her father Tony Curtis's will. Jamie would later go on to star in Knives Out, where she plays a daughter who learns she had been cut out of her wealthy father's will.
XE1Jk TIL the Honey Possum (of Western Australia) is the only flightless animal in the world to live solely on a diet of nectar and pollen. Honey Possum males have the largest sperm of any mammal in the world (0.14inches), whilst their young are born weighing only 0.005g.
oRYPR TIL in 1929 an underwater earthquake in the Atlantic caused a tsunami that hit Canada's east coast