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TIL that traveling at the speed of light, it would take you 200,000 years to go across the Milky Way galaxy

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nW99Y TIL there is an area of Yellowstone National Park called the “Zone of Death”, where a legal loophole could theoretically allow someone to get away with murder if committed there.
e0Xa6 TIL at the height of the Mongol Empire, Kublai Khan commissioned the creation of a unified script to be used by all languages within the empire. Called 'Phags-pa script, it was the official script for about 100 years, before falling out of use towards the end of the Yuan Dynasty in the 1350s.
69RRY TIL that Stalking Cat committed suicide in his garage.
1alj4 TIL about the heroism of Teddy Sheean, of the Australian navy. During WW2, his ship was torpedoed, and Japanese planes shot at survivors in the sea. Sheean strapped himself to an antiaircraft gun on the sinking ship and fired at the planes, downing at least one. He was still firing as he drowned.
N7bEE TIL that coconuts transported themselves around the world by foating through the sea. This one reason (along with human interferance) that coconuts are so widespread worldwide. So, yes, coconuts do migrate.