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TIL Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest object in the solar system. If it glowed in wavelengths visible to the eye, it would appear two to three times the size of the Sun or Moon to viewers on Earth

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XDAQ TIL a nine year-old boy robbed a New York bank in 1981 and got away with $118.
1mRO TIL “a typical can of Coca Cola contains as much sugar as three and half Krispy Kreme Donuts”
XxvQ TIL that 70 scientists who worked in the Manhattan project signed a petition pleading for president Truman to delay using atomic weapons on Japan before considering an observed demonstration of its power, but it never made it to Truman before the bombings
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