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TIL in February 14, 1990 as the Voyager 1 completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, NASA commanded it to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of astronomer Carl Sagan. The Earth is seen as a Pale Blue Dot.
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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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TIL that in the classic “pot calling the kettle black” expression, the kettle may not be black at all. The pot is seeing its own reflection in the kettle’s shiny surface.
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TIL that before Chris Hansen worked on To Catch a Predator, he was an NBC correspondent and investigative reporter that covered, through means of hidden cameras, corruption involving child slave labor and U.S citizen’s collusion with terror groups surrounding the September 11th attacks
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TIL For years an elderly Brazilian woman prayed to what she thought was a figurine of St. Anthony until she found out it was actually a figure of Elrond from Lord of the Rings