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TIL Lance Henriksen - "Bishop" in the movie Aliens - was illiterate until he was 30 years old.

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EBl0 TIL that there are a lot of political graffiti in Pompeii that shows that political campaigns never really changed, such as “Vote X, he brings good bread”, “the thieves vote for Y” and “vote Z, this will save the public purse”
VMoKB TIL there is a supermassive void in space called the Boötes void and if the Milky Way had been in the center of the void, we wouldn't have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s. The void is 0.27% the width of the entire observable universe.
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mxrOR TIL that in the USSR, according to Soviet statistics, the 3% of cultivated land in private hands "produced over a quarter of gross agricultural output, including about 30 percent of meat and milk, 66 percent of potatoes, and 40 percent of fruits, vegetables, and eggs"