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TIL Our galaxy (the Milky Way) is part of a larger supercluster of 100,000 galaxies named Laniakea that stretches 500 million light years across!

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6Enmm TIL that sunflowers follow the fibonacci sequence
7rM7M til of Francis Noel Baker. the only man to win both an Olympic medal and a Nobel prize. he won a silver in the 1500m in the 1920 Olympics and the Nobel peace prize in 1959.
k6V1 TIL a shark’s heart is under it’s tongue.
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