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TIL the Vatican’s archive is a whooping 40 million pages and digitizing it will take an estimated 9 years and 2.8 petabytes

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MaA TIL a guy from the UK changed his name to Emperor Spiderman Gandalf Wolverine Skywalker Optimus Prime Goku Sonic Xavier Ryu Cloud Superman HeMan Batman Thrash
OOwX TIL in Quechua the word “behind"is the same word as"future”. The word"In front"is the same word as"Past". Due to this, their temporal interpretation of life is that humans are walking through life backwards. They can see their past, but the future is unknown & yet to be seen, thus it is behind them.
LOeV TIL that when the Czech Republic conducted their 2011 census, their government discovered that 15,070 Czechs had listed their religious beliefs as “Jedi”
b6QLN TIL that astronauts can grow up to 2 inches taller in space because their spinal discs expand in microgravity.
VM4V0 TIL that the city of Nice (France) has been firing a cannon shot everyday at noon since 1861, a tradition set by Scottish officer Thomas Coventry More who used the cannon shot to warn his wife he was coming for lunch.