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TIL despite having the tag line “Gotta Catch ‘Em All”, Ash Ketchum only caught 43/649 Pokémon.

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epO9J TIL About the Solar gravitational lens, where in deep space you can use the Sun as a telescope lens.
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XEw5r TIL Food aid dropped into Afghanistan was the same color as the cluster bombs
Rnoa TIL An Australian public transport authority (Metro Trains, Melbourne) made a music video to promote railway safety. The video was censored in Russia because it “contains a description of different ways of committing suicide”
dDm8B TIL the last elementary particle that we know to exist was discovered in 2012 at the CERN in Switzerland, using the Large Hadron Collider. It's called the Higgs boson and it's the particle responsible for "assigning" a mass to other elementary particles.