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Z8GaQ TIL that the beautiful symmetry of a total solar eclipse happens because —by pure chance— the sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but is also 400 times farther from Earth, making the two bodies appear the exact same size in the sky.
logY7 TIL that Kurt Vonnegut's grave is in a secret location.
aw9EA TIL there’s a cemetery in the Netherlands consisting of 8,300 US veterans who died in WWII. For the past 70 years, Dutch families have come to the cemetery every Sunday to care for a grave they adopted. Hundreds of people are currently on a waiting list to become caretakers.
ANoYa TIL in 2021 Interstellar Technologies launched their TENGA Rocket named after their main sponsor; the adult toy manufacturer of the same name. Onboard was a masturbator equipped with sensors whose data was to be used to develop them for space use.
69V17 TIL: Lake Poopo completely dried up after the water level in Lake Titicaca could no longer support feeding into Poopo