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TIL that astronomers suggest Earth and the Milky Way may lie inside a vast, under-dense cosmic void about 1 billion light-years wide, which could affect local measurements of the universe’s expansion rate.

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kOJBe TIL Ted Nugent wrote the song Jailbait with lyrics, "I don't care if you're just thirteen," and "Wait a minute officer, Don't put those handcuffs on me, Put them on her and I'll share her with you."
ldyN TIL our closest animal relative, the Bonobo, is a bisexual species where 60% of sexual encounters are threesomes
QjZd TIL that eating 1400 Slim Jims will kill a person via sodium nitrate poisoning
e0G5L TIL of Arthur Stillwell, a young Kansas City entrepreneur who built over 3000 miles of railroad, and founded over 40 towns, and developed a way to to ship live oysters by train, all because the voices in his head told him to.
JKvB TIL: St Augustine, who lived in the 4th century, advocated that god should have made use of natural, evolutionary, original causes in the production of man’s body. He believed it was the soul that was created through a supernatural process, the body was created through a natural evolutionary process