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TIL scientists recently detected radio signals coming from a galaxy nearly 8 billion light-years away, one of the most distant “fast radio bursts” ever recorded

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lorrV TIL Young Earth Creationism is a belief that the Earth and all its lifeforms were created around 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. It is a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis. Some claim Dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. Others claim Dinosaurs never existed at all.
AYLB TIL the average high schooler has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient did in the early 1950s
j6nJX TIL that the 1830s London Bridge (whose replacement was in construction) was sold to a US entrepreneur who moved its outer stones to Arizona, and rebuilt it with a modernized foundation as a tourist attraction.
wovDJ TIL that on December 31, 1502, Cesare Borgia invited his former enemies to a friendly meeting in Senigallia to discuss military matters. They would all be captured and executed at that same meeting.
XEnD8 TIL that while French being extinct as a language is presented as joke in Futurama, in the French dubbing of the show, the extinct language is shown to be German instead.