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TIL that the India–Pakistan border is distinctly visible from outer space due to the numerous floodlights installed by India to facilitate its monitoring.

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Meba TIL Space Camp has an Adult Program
NXy11 TIL that infamous Wild West outlaw William Bonney aka “Billy the Kid” may have survived until 1950 under the alias Oliver “Brushy Bill” Roberts. On the night The Kid was supposedly shot and killed by sheriff Pat Garrett, one of his deputies exclaimed “You shot the wrong man!”.
ADD1a TIL that the shark in Jaws was named Bruce after Bruce Ramer, a lawyer who was representing Spielberg during the making of the film. Ramer still works in Hollywood and continues to represent celebrities like Clint Eastwood and George Clooney
OGg97 TIL Hitler was a vegetarian and used gruesome descriptions of animal suffering at the dinner table to try to dissuade his colleagues from eating meat
GAKM5 TIL Irene Triplett, the last person to receive benefits from the 1861-5 US Civil War, died in 2020