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TIL there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on Earth. The size of the universe is inconceivably large.

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GYR54 TIL that a pestilence very likely killed the Aztecs: within five years, 15 million people – 80% of the population – were wiped out in an epidemic named ‘cocoliztli’, meaning just pestilence
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jN0BE TIL that Betty White holds the Guinness World Record for longest TV career by an entertainer, with credits spanning 80 years (1939 to 2019)