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TIL of Pierre Brassau, an artist of the “avant-garde modern art” style. He was a chimpanzee, promoted by a Swedish journalist, to see if critics could distinguish between the style and the work of a chimpanzee. Most critics praised the work.

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.
J11Ok TIL The current largest known thing in the universe is a black hole (Ton 618). It has a mass equal to 66 billion Suns and it's accretion disk is one of the brightest things in the Universe.
4Xxj6 TIL Astronomer Thomas Harriot observed the Sun directly through a telescope and left nearly 200 drawings of sunspots from the period 1610–1612. To protect his eyes, he took advantage of mist and fog to dim the Sun's brightness
1anYD TIL that for over 100 years, Canada forced many Indigenous children to attend Residential schools away from their families years at a time. The quality of instruction was sub-par, many children were physically, sexually, and mentally abused, and at least 4000 children died in the school system.
xVkvg TIL because of laws passed in the 1970's to stop dishonest seed sellers in the UK and EU, thousands of historical plant varieties have been lost since only approved varieties are allowed to be sold.