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TIL of the Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, which by 2025 will accelerate to 430,000 mph and travel to (only) 4.3 million miles from the center of the Sun

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d88Nj TIL: Alan Smithee, a pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, stopped in 1998 after the director of the movie “Burn Hollywood Burn” (a film about a fictional director actually named Alan Smithee trying to disown his movie) used the pseudonym himself.
ArMn TIL there are giant clouds of alcohol floating in space. Near the constellation of Aquila, there’s a cloud 1000 times the diameter of our solar system with enough ethyl alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. Every person would have to drink 300,000 pints each day for one billion years.
Wym9 TIL The current way Americans salute the American Flag (our right hand over our heart) was instituted in 1942, because the old way looked too much like the Nazi salute.
j6GkM TIL that rent in Kowloon Walled City is the same price as a short cappuccino in Starbucks in Hong Kong nowadays (35 HKD).
1alEP TIL it wasn't a single drug discovery that stopped people from dying of AIDS in the 1990s but the discovery that combining several drugs would each affect a different aspect of HIV and together force the virus into undetectable remission, called the "AIDS cocktail"