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TIL that the galaxy in No Man's Sky has more stars than the Milky Way

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69oQ8 TIL Jim Davis' (aka the creator of the Garfield comic strip) first wife was allergic to cats
P97n TIL that Iceland decided against bailing out the banks, wrote a new constitution to reduce the power of money, and had the fastest recovery from the recession.
LkxZr TIL A mysterious 10-12kg (22-26lbs) icy ball fell into an Indian village. Some villagers thought it was an extra-terrestrial object. There were reports of villagers taking pieces home to put in their refrigerators. They found it was more likely to be frozen human faeces leaked from a plane overhead.
x6ZDB TIL: In 2008 Nebraska’s first child surrendering law intended for babies under 30 days old instead parents tried to give up their older children, many between the ages of 10 to 17, due to the lack of an age limit. The law was quickly amended.
OGbP4 TIL about the last Kauai ōʻō bird in world and its last song. It was last recorded in 1987, singing to a mate that would never come, and has since been declared extinct.