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TIL that the star Antares is around 700 times larger than our sun, with a diameter that is approximately 6 times larger than the distance from Earth to Mars and 2/3 of the distance from Earth to Saturn

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BgxlD TIL of Operation Gideon (2020): a failed attempt by American private military company, Silvercorp, to get rid of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, and place pro-U.S. Juan Guaidó in power.
1axd4 TIL The "Jesus Nut" or "Jesus Pin" is the only component holding the rotor blades on certain helicopters. It was nicknamed during the Vietnam war because if it were to fail in flight, the rotor blades would lift off of the helicopter and the crew would have nothing else to do but pray to Jesus.
nWE5r TIL a message in a bottle originating from Massachusetts by a 5th grader named Ben Lyons in 1997 washed ashore last year in France and was found by Hubert Eriau. Ben's bottle was part of a class project he did while studying the ocean currents. Ben began his message with "Dear Beachcomber."
xV47k TIL a Gambit movie that was in development was cancelled in 2019
yQP4w TIL: that Voyager 1 is travelling so fast that it would take just over 5 minutes to travel from London to New York