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TIL there are an estimated 2 billion earth-like planets in the Milky Way alone

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PYpOn TIL sculptor Giorgio Gikas, while battling colon cancer built an 11 foot statue of Robocop that was an idea from a resident of Detroit that said “ Philadelphia has a statue of rocky & Robocop would kick Rockys butt”
4XRnN TIL the Catholic Church has accepted Darwinian evolution as compatible with Christianity since 1950.
gxL TIL Down Syndrome males are sterile (aside from one documented case)
rBRd TIL that, due to the Doppler effect, a musical piece being emitted from a source traveling twice the speed of sound would be heard in correct time and tune, but backwards.
b6mOj TIL that a Florida attorney, E.E. Calloway, believed that the area around Florida’s Torreya State Park was the site of the biblical Garden of Eden and created a tourist attraction where people could tour the site. He also believed the torreya trees in the park were used to build Noah’s Ark.