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TIL New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the world, with an estimated 800 languages spoken

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X0MVD TIL that Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg collaborated in founding the Breakthrough Starshot program, which aims to develop a proof-of-concept fleet of interstellar probes capable of reaching Alpha Centauri.
Me98b TIL most of the world's Botox is manufactured in Ireland. A couple of pounds/kilos of the raw botulinum neurotoxin used to make it is enough to kill everyone in the world, multiple times over.
edy6 TIL a caterpillar turns almost entirely into liquid before rebuilding itself as a butterfly.
grxV4 TIL there was a British plan during WWIl to seal up soldiers in a hidden Gibraltar bunker so they could observe German military movements even if Gibraltar was captured.
vaWj TIL the Apollo 11 mission spacecraft was off course 97.5% of the time