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TIL that California’s official state animal is extinct.
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Today I learned that the smallest a neutron star can be is 12.5 miles but it has the mass of 1.5 of our sun.
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TIL that Sweden hosts the world’s largest scale model of the Solar System, based around the Ericsson Globe arena in central Stockholm, which acts as the ‘Sun’.
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TIL two surfers Andrew Cooper and Alex Schulze started the 4ocean movement and now has 27 operations around the world and has collected 4 million pounds of trash since 2017.
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TIL that Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, a Venetian noblewoman, was the first woman who earned the degree of "doctor of philosophy". However, Catholic church and the University of Padua refused to get a degree in theology, which she originally wanted. She died six years later.
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TIL that New York City once banned baby artichokes because the entire market was controlled by the mob.