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TIL that Mars will form rings in around 100 million years.

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45L6 TIL in 1995 a man in Australia attempted suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a shotgun. When that didn’t work he used a pistol to shoot himself in the head, then used the shotgun again on his throat and finally died after one last shotgun blast to the heart
d8MvQ TIL that Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron, is regarded as the first computer programmer. She wrote an algorithm for Charles Babagge's theroetical Analytical Engine in 1842, over 100 years before the development of the first computer.
x6797 TIL Starfish Prime, a 1962 U.S. Nuclear Test in Space, Created a Radiation Belt That Disrupted Satellites and Power Grids
nWKEB TIL that bullet trains in Japan were designed in 1940 & included plans to extend to Beijing and even Singapore.
PenV TIL there is a village in the Netherlands comprised entirely of people with dementia. It’s been called a “Truman Show for the elderly.”