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TIL that in the the Milky Way Galaxy alone, there are at least 25 billion places where life could exist.

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KOaXQ TIL before the creation of a public, professional, paid fire department in Boston, the city would pay whatever company arrived first at the scene of a fire, which led to intense competition, and even physical altercations between companies on the way to fires.
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XDdE TIL of Mira, a dying star zipping through our universe shedding its matter, each bit of which may one day grow into a new, individual star of its own. NASA has called it “The Johnny Appleseed of The Universe.
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