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TIL Butterflies can remember things they learn as caterpillars

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4KM5 TIL there are 86 Lego bricks for every person on earth.
EgbEV TIL Gliese 710 is a star that is projected to flyby the solar system in 1.2 million years, at a distance of "only" 2 light-months. The closest star to us is currently 4.25 light-years away.
Z8eR TIL the lowest grossing film in history made $30, $10 of this was refunded. It is called Zyzzyx Road and it has finally (6 years later) been released as a DVD.
xVPkw TIL that an observatory in Chile makes a peculiar wine by fermenting billion year old chunks of meteorite into it.
LQPVr TIL the creator of version control software Git, Linus Torvalds, once quipped about the name "git" (which is British English slang for an unpleasant or silly person): "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'."