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TIL the US Mint accidentally created “godless” dollar coins that don’t have the phrase “In God We Trust” inscribed on them

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QJjxM TIL The 'Hubble Deep Field image' covers an area of the sky equal to holding a tennis ball at 100 metres away, and contains over 10,000 galaxies, each one with around 100 billions stars in it.
W7pML TIL that the G.I. Joe U.S.S. Flagg aircraft carrier by Hasbro, which is 7 and a half feet long, over 3 feet wide, and almost 3 feet tall, is the largest playset ever produced for any line of action figures.
BgEQe TIL that Andrew Carnegie built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J. P. Morgan in 1901 for $303,450,000 (not adjusted fro inflation) which formed the basis of the U.S. Steel Corporation.
x6B15 TIL a 1995 experiment by Oberholzer et al successfully showed DNA replication inside tiny spherical lipid bilayer structures called liposomes (similar to cell membranes) - mimicing early cellular conditions. Advancing our understanding of how life could have originated.
6xY TIL the official name of the # symbol is “octothorpe”