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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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DQgQv TIL John Walsh (America's Most Wanted) strongly pushed for a bill that put men who date under age girls on the sex offender list. Walsh dated his wife when she was 16 and he was in his 20s. According to his own bill he should be on the sex offender list. He is not.
xVOBB TIL that not only were famous conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker Confederates but they were also slaveholders and particularly vicious ones with one person stating that a slave purchased from the Bunkers was ‘the worst whipped’ he’d ever seen.
0woLy TIL A 3-year-old boy was buried with his tricycle after he was killed in the atomic blast at Hiroshima. The trike is now on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
pY05Q TIL the Boeing 737 started as the company's smallest passenger jet. It was gradually lengthened to the 737-900ER, which at 137 feet is almost the length of the original Boeing 707, flies the same distance, and carries more passengers.
4X0KN TIL moths are a crucial pollinator of a wide range of flowers and plants. New research shows that the moths' transport networks are larger and more complex than those of daytime pollinators like bees.