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TIL: Alien world blacker than coal, the darkest planet known, has been discovered in the galaxy.

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NwE8 TIL :A small percentage of static on televisions is actually radioactive resonance from the big bang 13 billion years ago.
awPeL TIL that when filming Zulu (1964) in South Africa, when the authorities warned the British crew that interracial sex was punishable by whipping, the producer responded by asking "if he could have the lashes while doing it".
oB0wK TIL that the Allies liberated Paris from the Nazis on 8/25/44.
BrwlW TIL that term "laser" originated as an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation".
9wrQG TIL 50 years after the last Apollo mission in 1972, only 4 of the 12 moonwalkers are still alive: Charlie Duke, Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott and Harrison Schmitt. After leaving NASA, Duke chose the creationist belief that everything in the universe was created by a God