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TIL Star Trek hyposprays were invented to get around NBC’s ban on showing syringes on television.

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DG1P TIL Henry Ford was an honorary Nazi and his first company later became Cadillac
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VpJZ TIL that the world’s biggest and most advanced radio telescope will be built by 2024. It can scan the sky 10,000 times faster and with 50 times the sensitivity of any other telescope, it will be able to see 10 times further into the universe and detect signals that are 10 times older
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