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TIL Lobsters can live to be 140 years old!

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b69J0 TIL "Project Fantasia" that the US tried to scare the Japanese in WWII with glow in the dark foxes.
gM5GD TIL that the furthest detected individual star is 14.4 billion light years from Earth. We can detect it from so far away because gravity from objects between us and the star have warped its light, magnifying it 2000 times and focusing the star's light onto Earth for telescopes to pick up.
x6akb TIL : Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, endured many tragedies. Her mother died after giving birth to her, she was in constant debt, her 1st, 2nd, and 3rd children all died, while her husband drowned on his sailing boat. She herself passed away at 53.
ADvlB TIL Wyndham Halswelle won the gold medal for the 400 meter race in the 1908 Olympics. Noone won silver or bronze, as he was the sole competitor.
nJ4o TIL China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission