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TIL that a new laser will be powerful enough to rip apart space itself

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Yp0YZ TIL Mark Hamill told Rian Johnson for the new Star Wars movie, “I pretty much fundamentally disagree with every choice you’ve made for this character. Now, having said that, I have gotten it off my chest, and my job now is to take what you’ve created and do my best to realize your vision.”
nexYW TIL astronomers found a huge cloud of dust containing ethyl formate, the same chemical that gives raspberries their taste, in the middle of the Milky Way.
oBb5A TIL that in 1962, a 1.4 megaton nuclear warhead, codenamed "Starfish Prime", was detonated at an altitude of 250 miles. The EMP released affected Hawaii 900 miles away and disabled 6 satellites as well as all of the sensors set up to record the experiment.
eEO4 TIL that the shredded remains of birds that get sucked into jet turbines is called “snarge”.
WNQB TIL former US President Calvin Coolidge (1924-28) enjoyed “buzzing for his bodyguards and then hiding under his desk as they frantically searched for him”