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TIL the James Webb Space Telescope has detected signs of potential life on exoplanet K2-18b.

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Z1wo TIL Abraham Lincoln anticipated his assassination: “On the day of the assassination, Lincoln told his bodyguard, William H. Crook, that he had been having dreams of himself being assassinated for three straight nights.”
ANdNa Today i learned that bats aren't actually blind 💀
WkaLX TIL Killer Whales are actually dolphins. They were called Whale Killers by Spanish fishermen but were mistranslated as Killer Whales in English
o9ZW TIL the “strangest” battle of WWII refers to the Battle for Castle Itter the only battle in the war in which Americans and Germans fought as allies.
0dmKR TIL in 2005 graffiti artist David Choe was offered $60,000 to paint murals at Facebook headquarters. He chose to take the compensation in stock. Eventually being worth more than $200,000,000.