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TIL Queen guitarist Brian May is an astrophysicist and member of the NASA team that interprets data from Pluto.

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mxYxp TIL 'The Lost Generation' is a sad poem about society that ends with "all this will come true unless we choose to reverse it." If you read it backwards, each line has an opposite meaning, and it becomes happy.
gJ8A TIL that Tsutomo Yamaguchi (the man who survived both atom bombs) traveled 180 miles home to return to work despite his intense injuries from the first bomb. When he arrived at work his boss didn’t believe that one bomb destroyed all of Hiroshima. Then the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
YpJ7B TIL that France enforced a ban on unlimited fizzy drinks in an effort to curb obesity
KYG14 TIL the 1883 eruption of Krakotoa which killed 36,417 people was so loud it was heard 4800KM away and the sound wave travelled the earth over 3 times
WkJlB TIL the bishop of Orlando is also bishop of the moon, due to a canon law that says "any newly discovered territory would fall under the bishopric from whence the discovering expedition departed." His is therefore the largest Catholic diocese, at over 14,000,000 square miles.