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TIL that with our current fastest space vehicle it would take 81,000 years to reach the nearest star system. We have quite a ways to go before interstellar colonization outside of our solar system is possible.

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kODa5 TIL in 1948, when Britain started their publicly funded National Health Service (NHS), the American Medical Association (AMA) ran an unprecedented campaign to turn public opinion against a national health service in USA, which had wide spread support at the end of World War 2.
8eRjK TIL that during the Pony Express' 18 months of operation, it covered a distance equivalent to circling the Earth 30 times to deliver a total of 34,753 letters, and only lost one bag of mail.
Z8k8B TIL: The USSR had a four-part process for subverting other countries, and spent 85% of its time and budget on psychological warfare, as described by a defector. The over 25-year process included phases of demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization.
XENy8 TIL that the the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine, setting of the show "Murder She Wrote," has a murder rate of 149 per 100,000 residents; compared to St. Louis, Missouri, which lead the U.S. in 2020 with 87 murders per 100k residents.
6ADW TIL During the 2012 London Olympics, which lasted for 17 days, the athletes were provided with 150,000 free condoms- approximately 15 each.