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TIL that the world’s biggest and most advanced radio telescope will be built by 2024. It can scan the sky 10,000 times faster and with 50 times the sensitivity of any other telescope, it will be able to see 10 times further into the universe and detect signals that are 10 times older

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lGAa TIL of ‘Code of the Secret Service’, a movie which lead actor Ronald Reagan called “the worst picture I ever made.” The film inspired a man named Jerry Sparr to join the Secret Service, who in 1981, saved President Ronald Reagan from an assassination attempt
DyEJ TIL the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time is a romantic comedy about a playboy businessman who falls in love with a mermaid who was sent to assassinate him.
OooVg TIL that "Texas" is slang for "crazy" in Norway.
xNP7 TIL that the 1965 “Slumber Party Barbie” came with a scale permanently set to 110 lbs, and a diet book with just one instruction: “Don’t Eat!”
G9Xj TIL that TV commercials haven’t necessarily gotten quieter since the CALM Act (the TV commercial volume control law) went into effect last December, because it relies mostly on consumer complaints to the FCC to enforce the law. Link to submit those complaints included.