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TIL if we could see the Andromeda Galaxy in the sky with the naked eye it would appear several times larger than the moon.

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awMQ0 TIL that U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower had a speech prepared in the event that the 1944 D-Day invasion failed. In the speech he takes full responsibility for the failure of the operation.
rdX0 TIL the FBI thought it was plausible enough that Hitler faked his suicide that they investigated South American Hitler sightings
lxkA TIL a radioactive 1950s science kit for kids “came with four different types of uranium ore, a geiger counter, a miniature cloud chamber, an electroscope, a spinthariscope and an educational comic book called ‘Learn How Dagwood Splits the Atom!’”
deV7 TIL the word Dildo comes from a Latin word meaning to “open wide”
ZxEY TIL a man claimed ownership of the moon and has legally sold over 300 million acres of extraterrestrial land to over 2 million people in 176 countries.