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TIL the moon has download speeds of 622 Mbps and an upload rate of 20 Mbps

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kOE4B TIL that Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken isn’t a celebration of choice and individuality - It’s actually the opposite. He wrote it sarcastically to make fun of an indecisive friend, and the poem actually asserts that the choice between the “two paths” doesn’t really make a difference at all.
YajB TIL In 2006 NASA launched a probe to Pluto, just months before it was demoted to dwarf planet status. It was the fastest spacecraft ever launched and still two years from arrival.
VMxx4 TIL the first female admiral in the modern world was Keumalahayati from Aceh Sultanate (now part of Indonesia) in Southeast Asia. She led their defense against the Dutch Navy attacks that killed Cornelis de Houtman in September 1599, who commanded the first Dutch Expedition to East Indies.
v1Mm7 The biggest lightning flash on record has been identified. More than twice the size of the previous record, it spanned 709 kilometres – about the distance from London to Geneva.
699D7 TIL that Paul McCartney in 1967 once let a man who claimed to be Jesus Christ into his home and a recording session for The Beatles song 'Fixing a Hole'