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TIL: There is an area of the universe a billion light years across that has virtually nothing in it, not even dark matter.

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yQ18e TIL Metallica's catering rider for their 2004 tour repeatedly stated in all-caps that it was very important to have bacon available at every meal and throughout the day.
7DOr TIL that once your GPS unit realizes it is traveling faster than 1200mph (1900kmph) at an altitude higher than 60,000ft (18,000m), it will automatically shut itself down in fear that it is being used in an intercontinental ballistic missile-like application.
8amB4 TIL that the inventor of the frisbee was cremated and made into frisbees after his death.
78Akp TIL In 1964 a criticality accident in Rhode Island at a nuclear facility resulted in the largest single full body dose of radiation in history, the equivalent of 700,000 X-rays at once | The victim died 49 hours later
gMam8 TIL the mathematician Paul Erdős regularly used amphetamines to increase his mathematical output. His friend bet him he couldn't stop using them for a month - Erdős won the bet but claimed that it had caused mathematics to be set back by a month.