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TIL that a Japanese company is proposing to build solar power cells on the Moon to provide clean energy to Earth.

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n9OG TIL Star Trek’s planets were seeded by an ancient humanoid race, and thats why the races are humanoid and physically compatible.
yZaX TIL the reason a Blu-Ray disc holds 5x more data than a DVD is because a blue laser has a lower wavelength than a red one, which means it can read and write data more precisely, much like writing with a ballpoint pen instead of a crayon.
nekWP TIL 16% of all women 65 and over, are living at Poverty level. Marital status impacts whether an older woman is living in poverty. 26.1% of women who never married live in poverty compared 4.9% of married women. $12,490 is the poverty level, US poverty rate 13.9 percent.
XZB8 TIL in 1997 William Shatner agreed to become the spokesman for Priceline in exchange for some stock in the young company. This has earned him approximately $600 million as the stock soared.
7r47P TIL a woman accidentally inhaled a condom during oral sex, which lodged into her lungs and caused it to collapse.