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TIL with a "Constant acceleration" space ship, at 1G acceleration you could travel the diameter of the milkey way (105,000 Light years) in a short 12 years.

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E1XAW TIL a Chicago Mayor, Michael Bilandic, lost his re-election in 1979 because he couldn’t get the streets plowed
69NXm TIL the seemingly out of place lyric in Paul Simon's 'Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes' about 'she makes the sign of the teaspoon, he makes the sign of the wave' is actually a reference to South African taxi hand signals, indicating going to a rich district and a poor district, respectively.
kNwW TIL: The Canadian RCMP systematically slaughtered the sled dogs of the Inuit until as late as the 1970s
awywb TIL that after the Sex Pistols said the f-word on the Bill Grundy show in 1976, lorry driver Jason Holmes was so outraged he kicked in the screen of his brand new TV and complained to Thames Television about the damage
kobB TIL: Hundreds of TSA agents have been caught stealing from passengers.