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TIL the Voyager I and II space probes, which are currently racing through interstellar space, each include a golden record with 115 analog-encoded photographs, greetings in 55 languages, a 12-minute montage of sounds on Earth and 90 minutes of music (including Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B. Good')

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XRbX TIL of the theory that in ‘Superman’ (1978), Superman doesn’t actually turn back time by litterally reversing the earth’s rotation. Instead, he himself travels to the past by flying faster than the speed of light, and the reversing earth is simply a visual metaphor for this.
rPQ1 TIL In 1994 a 75 pound bag of cocaine fell out of a plane and landed in the middle of a Crime Watch meeting in Florida
0oWA TIL that Coconuts are so important in the Cook Islands they ask about them in the census. For the record, each home eats ten coconuts per week… and feeds 75 to their animals.
j6xa TIL Turkey has the highest age of consent in Europe at age 18 while Spain has the lowest at 13.
bQK9 TIL Sniper bullets can hit targets so far away that the sniper needs to take the spin of the Earth into account (The Coriolis Drift)