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TIL Kazuyoshi Miura holds the distinction of having the world’s longest professional football career, and, as of 2023, is the oldest professional footballer in the world at 55. He also holds the unique distinction of having played professional football in five separate decades (1980s–2020s)

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aXVM TIL Wilhelm Neubronner used pigeons to deliver medications from his pharmacy, when neighbouring villages received their own pharmacies his son patented the invention of aerial photography by attaching camera to the pigeons.
LDWZ TIL a quasar group called LQG is the largest known structure in the Universe. The group is so large that it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light some 4 billion years to cross it
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