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TIL If you can travel in a spacecraft and constantly accelerate at just 1g you can travel across the entire known universe in one human lifetime.

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44QN TIL that at 92 years of age Kevin Bacon’s dad rode a skateboard in love park in protest of the city banning skaters from the park that he had designed.
a8GjZ TIL that pet food manufacturer Purina owned Jack in the Box from the late 60s to the late 80s. In the 80s, they changed the restaurant’s name to “Monterey Jack’s” and overhauled the menu to appeal to an affluent “yuppie” audience. The changes were poorly received and later reversed.
9Y5mD TIL of Event 2O1, a conference held last October with medical, business, and government leaders that predicted a Coronavirus outbreak.
ARXn TIL: 2,000 mice were parachuted into Guam to kill snake invaders. The mice were dead and pumped full of acetaminophen which killed the snakes.
1aJKP TIL about George Ray Tweed, one of six men to refuse to surrender to the Japanese on Guam in 1941. 5 were captured & beheaded. He avoided capture for two years and seven months when the USA recaptured the island.