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TIL that the James Webb Space Telescope can detect the heat signature of a bumblebee at the distance of the moon

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9YAxX TIL that there is monument in Ireland called Newgrange, built in 3200 before Christ, constructed in a way that the sun lights shine in the inside only one day in a year (the winter solstice day)!
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