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TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination.

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m15yE TIL the extremely venomous and painful tentacles of the Portuguese Man-of-War can reach a lenth of up to 165 ft / 50m
oRkr8 TIL that wasps and hornets, despite being primarily carnivorous are actually important pollinators that are good to have in your garden for reasons other than controlling other pests
MApW TIL that the Republican Party hasn’t won a Presidential election without a Bush or Nixon on the ballot since 1928.
xLvD TIL that if you grow an apple tree from an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to produce an apple entirely different than the one that produced the seed.
E48X TIL there is one person in the world with “Syndrome X” which prevents normal aging. Brooke Greenberg is 20 and appears to be one year old.