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TIL about South Africa's Meerkat Radio Telescope Observatory and their impressive efforts to capture the heart of the Milky Way galaxy using radio waves.

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160Vd TIL that Julius Caesar wept when he visited the tomb of Alexander the Great in 48 BC, deeply moved by Alexander’s early conquests and the legacy he left at such a young age. Caesar admired Alexander as a source of inspiration for his own ambitions.
86pG TIL that Japan and Russia are still officially at war with each other since they’ve never found a mutually acceptable way to end World War II.
E1y5V TIL that a semi truck is estimated to cause 9,600 times the damage to roads as a passenger vehicle
Wkje8 TIL: The "overview effect" is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from outer space. It is the experience of seeing firsthand the reality of the Earth in space.
KoXE TIL in 1972 a mail worker in spain was given a sentence of 384,912 years in prison for failure to deliver the mail.