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TIL that a new radio telescope being built in Australia and South Africa will generate so much data about space that it will exceed global internet traffic by a large margin. An exabyte per day of raw data, which could be compressed to around 10 petabytes.

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X0VAR TIL that around 15,000 US soldiers died in Pilot training during WW2. They lost 65,164 planes during the war but only 22,948 was lost in combat.
b9meN TIL- 'Gaslighting' is a form of psychological torture where false, misleading and/ or contradicitng information is given to a subject to cause them to doubt their own sanity.
xjo0 TIL Nazis use to sterilize prisoners by placing in a room and asking to complete forms, which took two to three minutes. In this time, the radiation treatment was administered and, unknown to the prisoners, they were rendered completely sterile
9jkG TIL that falcons will imprison their prey alive for storage
R5Nk1 TIL about the Readymix logo geoglyph, a 3.2 km × 1.6 km (2.0 mi × 0.99 mi) logo carved into the ground in outback Australia in 1965. For a lone time of it was the largest such signage of its kind in the world.