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TIL that sometime in the distant future (2 billion years) we’ll be able to view the Andromeda galaxy in our night sky as it gets closer and eventually merges with the Milky Way.

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jrRj TIL , There was a day, BBC ran out of news, April 18, 1930: A Day With No News, they played piano music instead
AR87 TIL The United States is the most armed nation with 88.8 guns per 100 people.
wolE1 TIL In 2017, a Scottish widower launched 2000 messages in bottles in an attempt to find love. He got 50 potential dates, and multiple angry responses from locals and environmental agencies.
wO4W TIL that there is a 100% effective, safe form of reversible male birth control… that is unavailable because no corporations will back it, as they are afraid they won’t make any money from it as it is very cheap and effective after one use.
NXA1J TIL of Guðlaugur Friðþórsson, a fisherman who in 1984 survived 6 hours in 5 °C cold water after his ship sank and then trekked barefoot for 3 hours across lava fields before reaching safety. Despite only wearing shirt, sweater and jeans, he showed almost no symptoms of hypothermia or vasodilatation.