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TIL: Australia is wider than the moon.

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JlWm TIL the Oh My God Particle, an ultra high energy particle (a billion times more energy than the LHC’s output) that travels so absurdly fast, time dilation dictates that it would have experienced 16 days of time since the beginning of the universe
DQxbg TIL - A work of fiction between 20,000 and 49,999 words is considered a novella. Once a book hits the 50,000 word mark, it is generally considered a novel.
e0AJ5 TIL; the dingy blue lights in some public toilets is to prevent addicts from injecting heroin as the blue light makes it much more difficult to see veins
mxdDv TIL that 9 missing episodes of the 1960s Dr Who series were found in a TV station in Nigeria. They’d been left there in the 60s-70s for foreign syndication. It was the largest haul of classic Who episodes ever recovered in the last three decades.
b98BZ TIL that Golden Crisp cereal is still called Sugar Crisp in Canada