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TIL of Rotha Lintorn-Orman, who decided to become a facist in 1923 to save Britian from communism one day when she was weeding her kitchen garden

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Yppnd TIL there is an "upside down" waterfall in Hawaii. For part of the year it flows straight up into the sky.
BrxDd TIL that 97% of the galaxies in our observable Universe are permanently unreachable by humans. The Universe is expanding so rapidly that even if humans left earth today, travelling at the speed of light, they could only ever reach about 3% of the total number of galaxies in our observable Universe.
mx7Lv TIL that Orville Wright came to regret his invention. He thought his invention would be used for observation, but he was appalled by the horrors airplanes had contributed to in war.
mPep TIL since 1950 the United States has lost a total of 8 nuclear bombs
QNrDp TIL of the Casuarina (she-oak/Australian pine), a tree that looks like a pine tree with its needle-like leaves but is actually a flowering plant.