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TIL with a hypothetical "Constant Acceleration" spaceship traveling at 1G you could travel the diameter of the Milky Way (105,000 Light-years) in a short 12 year journey.

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VLbB TIL that Mark Wahlberg had committed 20-25 offenses by the age of 21. These included throwing rocks at a bus full of black schoolchildren and knocking a Vietnamese man unconscious and blinding another. He was also addicted to cocaine by age 13.
8ay1Z TIL when Ella Fitzgerald couldn’t get booked by clubs and TV because she was black, Marilyn Monroe offered to come to a nightclub every night and sit in the front row if they let Ella sing.
xVnG0 TIL that carbonated water could actually be better for plants than standard water. And aid in their growth.
9wrQG TIL 50 years after the last Apollo mission in 1972, only 4 of the 12 moonwalkers are still alive: Charlie Duke, Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott and Harrison Schmitt. After leaving NASA, Duke chose the creationist belief that everything in the universe was created by a God
rRn54 TIL that in model migration Asians crossed Beringia land bridge to the Americas about 16000 years ago, and you can still find traces on Santa rosa island (CA)