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TIL that the CIA ran a secret program called Project Stargate from the 1970s to the 1990s to study “remote viewing” for intelligence purposes, before officially shutting it down in 1995

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EoKd TIL, Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing. The deceleration is occurring at about 17 milliseconds per 100 years. This will have the effect of lengthening our days, but it’s happening so slowly that it could be as much as 140 million years before the length of a day will have increased to 25 hours.
0wQQj TIL about the Via Francigena, a 1300-year-old Camino-style pilgrimage route from Canterbury through France and Italy to Rome.
7llr TIL the highest achievable score in a single game of “Jeopardy!” is $566,400.
Z8W8R TIL that King Frederik VII of Denmark was the last monarch to rule in Denmark as an absolute monarch and that when he died childless in 1863, a succession crisis ensued.
NX5bM TIL that the UK version of the movie "Every Day" is cut by 4s to remove a scene (cut marks shown on a girl's arm) to secure a 12A certificate instead of a 18. Surprisingly, the Irish release is uncut at the same rating, despite the fact that Britain and Ireland form the same distribution region.