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TIL Hubble can get detailed views of distant galaxies but not of Pluto

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YpARA TIL that Domestic Cats are considered the most dangerous invasive species globally. The extinction of 63 different species of birds/mammals/reptiles can be directly attributed to them.
xVVpB TIL that Ptolemy XI Alexander II killed his stepmother, who was also his half-sister, aunt and wife.
4XMLJ TIL The iconic Slinky toy was created during the development of a device designed to stabalise naval equipment during rough seas. Richard James knocked one of his springs off a bookshelf and it "stepped' down a pile of books.
0dvLA TIL: Famine is not a natural disaster — it's primarily man-made.
kOXwm TIL that construction of the Roman Colosseum was funded by the opulent spoils stolen from the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem after the First Jewish-Roman War in 70CE which destroyed Jerusalem and sent the Jews into exile.