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TIL NASA operates an online interactive 3D map of the solar system with planets and other celestial objects.

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0wdPv TIL that there's a city called Earth.
165WD TIL that there are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe
E15NW TIL that during the cold war, both the United States and the USSR had designated 'Signal Cities' in the opposing countries that, in the event of an escalation of hostilities, would be nuked to indicate strong resolve. It was called 'nuclear signaling'. Kiev and Boston were the cities.
wojW1 TIL that the two great baroque composers Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Händel were both blinded by the same eye surgeon and known medical charlatan, John Taylor
YbV7 TIL that a Japanese Officer in WW2 killed himself rather than order his 2000 subordinates to conduct a kamikaze attack