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TIL That NASA is working on a warp drive that could get us to Alpha Centauri in 2 weeks.

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QJoBL TIL 1 gram of Polonium-210 could kill 50,000,000 people, while giving another 50,000,000 severe radiation sickness.
Z8Bk4 TIL a Hapax legomenon is a word or expression that occurs only once in the entire written record of a language. For example, Slæpwerigne, "sleep-weary", occurs exactly once in the Old English corpus, in the Exeter Book.
10D TIL that a copy of ‘The Pond - moonlight’, a photograph shot in 1904 by photographer Edward Steichen, was sold for US $2.9 million in 2006 making it the most expensive photograph at the time.
mxlbv TIL that the collapse of the USSR can be traced back to Anna Walentynowics, who spoke out about her boss stealing a workers’ bonus fund, got fired, workers struck in support of her, that escalated into the Solidarity movement, which led to the fall of communism in Poland and eventually Europe.
0kaN TIL a dead woman Sat in front of her TV Undiscovered for 42 years.