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TIL that the Andromeda Galaxy probably won’t collide with the Milky Way in 4-5 billion years. New observations put the probability at 2% in the next 5 billion years and 50% in the next 10 billion. Eventually though, it will happen.

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yVjkl TIL the novel "The Wreck of the Titan" was written in 1898, before the real Titanic was even an idea. Like the Titanic, the fictional ship sank after wrecking on an iceberg in April in the North Atlantic Ocean, and there were not enough lifeboats.
5GRB TIL there is a village in Nebraska with only one resident. She acts as mayor, and even pays taxes to herself.
7BQp TIL In the 60’s, the U.S. Department of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff wanted to kill innocent American citizens in order to frame Cuba, but JFK stopped it.
MmVW TIL a Human Nutrition professor ate mainly Hostess snack cakes for two months to prove That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most – not the nutritional value of the food.
kJeY1 TIL the Ancient Greeks believed that the North Pole was actually a sunny and temperate sanctuary called Hyperborea, which was blessed by Apollo.