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TIL a flock of starlings is called a murmuration.

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6BaZ TIL that by June 2015, Earthlings want to launch hundreds of small satellites into low orbit that will broadcast free and uncensored Internet to everyone in the world
GYd7 TIL Marie Curie’s notebooks from the late 19th century are still too radioactive to be handled
DQexg TIL: Saturn's north pole is a hexagon
R7Blw TIL In the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) the ship Cotopaxi was discovered in the Gobi desert, presumably left there by Aliens. At that time the ship was believed to have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle in 1925, but was discovered in 1985 in Florida, and not verified until 2020.
GAV87 TIL: Arsenic was sold as a beauty product in the late 1800s, women would nibble on wafers or even wash with the poison, hoping to achieve an ideal complexion that was free of “freckles, black-heads, and pimples."