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TIL scientists have discovered an exoplanet that resides within its star's habitable zone, has a temperate climate and contains water at its surface. However, even with spacecrafts much faster than our current ones, it would take a crew of 98 members 6,300 years to reach the Earth-like exoplanet.

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GLAj TIL that after a man disappeared his family was pressured into confessing that they killed him, cut him and fed him to the dogs. 4 years later in 2009 his car with his body still in it was found at the bottom of a river
ax5A TIL Poon Kim holds the record for surviving adrift in a life raft at 133 days in 1942-43. When told no one had ever survived longer on a raft at sea, he replied, “I hope no one will ever have to break that record.”
W6Ko TIL that Colorado and Washington are the two least religious states in the country.
YGGA TIL Brazil was home of the largest Nazi party outside Germany, with more than 40,000 affiliates.
R7J99 TIL The writer of "That 70's Show" theme song gets $70 each time the show airs, and refers to it as "That $70 Show" .