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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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DQNOP TIL ending a sentence with '/s' is called a 'Tone Indicator'; a set of 60+ symbols that explicitly state the intention or intonation of a message, when it might be considered otherwise ambiguous.
VBQPZ TIL an MIT professor evaluated Nikola Tesla’s “death ray” technology for the FBI. His lab director would later say “over a period of three decades, he would be approached by people of all sorts because he could make megavolt beams of ions and electrons – death rays.”
EJd0 TIL an old lady who bumped into Stephen King in the supermarket told him she didn’t like his writing and she preferred uplifting movies like Shawshank Redemption. When King told her he wrote that too, she replied ‘No, you didn’t.’, causing King to momentarily doubt that he was indeed the author.
p8NEN TIL Life expectancy at birth was a brief 25 years during the Roman Empire, it reached 33 years by the Middle Ages and raised up to 55 years in the early 1900s.
GAoOg TIL AIPAC tried to hide evidence that it played a major part in pushing for the Invasion of Iraq in 2003