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TIL that Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking, and Mark Zuckerberg founded a project to send swarms of tiny spacecraft, driven by solar sails powered by gigawatt lasers, to nearby stars.

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9YZWp TIL: When roosters open their beaks fully, their external auditory canals completely closed off. Basically, roosters have built in earplugs. This helps prevent them from damaging their hearing when they crow.
9DmM TIL Japan Airlines operates an exhibition of the 1985 plane crash, displaying passengers’ farewell notes, their personal belongings and 41 pieces of wreckage, as a safety lesson for its employees.
Pndw TIL former WWE wrestler Kurt Angle fractured two vertebrae during the 1996 Olympic Trials, herniating two discs and pulling four muscles, but still went on to win the trials and five months later take home the gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1996 Olympics.
ANKpx TIL in 2017, Morgan Spurlock of “Super Size Me” admitted to a history of alcohol abuse, which is now thought to better account for his various health symptoms originally attributed to McDonald’s food.
JQbB TIL a recent study found that people tend to be more stressed out at home than at work