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TIL that The Vatican helps fund a large binocular telescope that has an instrument named L.U.C.I.F.E.R.

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rN4eo TIL about the Passage du Gois, a road in France that's flooded out twice a day by the high tide.
M7V9W TIL how dangerous it was to serve in the US Air Force in Europe in WW2. Just the US 8th Air Force alone lost 26,000 KIA out of a total strength of 200,000. Comparatively the Marine Corps suffered just under 20,000 KIA while having 50,000 more men deployed.
d8OJZ TIL ancient Romans used to eat hallucinogenic fish at parties to get high.
4GX5 TIL that the screenplay for Stuart Little (1999) was written by M Night Shyamalan
NyMN TIL the woman general, Liang Hongyu, after being wounded and seeing her intestines hanging out, realized she would die. So, she pushed her intestines back in, bound her abdomen, and then said to her followers, “Today is the day I die for my country!”. She killed dozens.