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5Ydr8 TIL Stephen Hawking’s ashes are buried beneath a memorial stone inscribed with his equation for the Hawking temperature of black holes. To commemorate his death, Hawking’s own words were beamed towards the nearest known black hole to Earth, about 3,500 light years away, by the European Space Agency
8ajdZ TIL The London 2012 Olympics was the first time where every sport had female competitors. It was also the first Olympic Games where every country who entered sent at least one female athlete
nvKP TIL you can check if a credit card number is valid with a simple algorithm
4kyLR TIL Gwen Stefani's older brother Eric was an animator on The Simpsons and drew the band into the episode "Homerpalooza" (1996)
Eg5PP TIL that despite Saturn being 8 times further from the Sun than the Earth, it also has an Aurora Borealis but is only visible by ultraviolet light.