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TIL scientists are using machine learning on photos of your retina (the back of your eye) to help screen for ADHD!

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ZpMyQ TIL that the quasar 3C 273 is so incredibly bright that if it were 36 lightyears away it would appear brighter than the sun in our sky, and is 4 trillion times brighter than our star.
a8OXN TIL: In 2022, Airbus announced they were going to create a production site in space. They teamed up with the European Space Agency to bring several metal 3d printers into space. The lack of weight and size constraints will allow satellites to be built in space using moondust.
R7Vd1 TIL during the period between 1964 and 1973, US dropped 260 million bombs in Laos, a country smaller than Michigan. The number of bombs dropped there is larger than bombs dropped on Europe during the whole of World War II.
NX8Z8 TIL The Life of Brian was banned in a Welsh town until the actress who played Brian's girlfriend became mayor and lifted the ban 30 years later
beM4 TIL that it’s not just the job market that makes recent grads unhappy or even depressed. It’s also strongly connected to the way our generation has been raised.