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TIL the american flags on the moon have been bleached solid white from decades of exposure

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EggwP TIL that the character Koba from Planet of the Apes (2010s) is named after Joseph Stalin, who also used "Koba" as his nickname. The name originally comes from a character in a Georgian book called The Patricide, which inspired Stalin.
6XjJ TIL there is a disorder that is thought to be purely psychological called Pseudocyesis, where a woman shows all the symptoms of being pregnant except for the presence of a fetus. Their belly grows at the right rate and they can even go into false labour
9wvQ6 TIL Mexico's fertility rate is below replacement level.
YZlP TIL there will be a rare occurrence of TWO total lunar eclipses in 2014, one in April and one in October.
X0YoR TIL that in 2016, a GPS satellite decommissioning glitch caused 15 satellites to broadcast the wrong time by 13 microseconds. The tiny error triggered thousands of system faults and alarms in telecom networks worldwide for over 12 hours.