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TIL The Catholic Church didn’t pardon Galileo until 1992 when Pope Johm Paul II admitted Galileo was right, 349 years after the condemnation.

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Y70Xx TIL 61% of older millennials believe they’ll be working at least part-time during retirement
dDylK TIL in 2017, NASA successfully communicated commands 13 billion miles away to Voyager 1 and got it to fire up its thrusters which were not in use since 37 years
NXj1P TIL a 2014 study found that males represented 88.7% of all Darwin Award winners selected between 1995-2014. "Darwin Award winners eliminate themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species' chances of long-term survival."
EgYGW TIL that the US ranks 51st in the world in life expectancy, behind China and Cuba.
d8rE7 TIL: When Dolly Parton first hosted an annual "Gay Day" at her theme park, Dollywood, the KKK and others threatened her over it. She still gets threats but this hasn't stopped the event.