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TIL- "The Pale Blue Dot" photo was taken on February 14, 1990 by Voyager 1 nearly 4 billion miles away from our Earth. "That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."

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m1nkp TIL Since their invention, cars have killed an estimated 60–80 million people, injured at least 2 billion
x48D TIL: the Spanish inquisition had to give 30 days notice, so people knew they were comming.
0Vl5 TIL- Pawpaw, the largest edible fruit native to North America is pollinated by flies because the flowers smell like rotting meat, the fruit tastes like a banana/mango
OGVDa TIL that our eyes have evolved to essentially hide from our own immune systems to avoid damage and blindness from inflammations
vPdoB TIL about Lauri Törni who fought for the Finnish Army during the Winter War and Continuation War, fought for Germany during WWII, and fought for the US during Vietnam War, where he was killed. He is the only known Waffen-SS to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.