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TIL About the Great Noting, a Giant Void in the space with an underdensity of galaxies in this region

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nbNW TIL the Olsen twins are not identical twins, but rather fraternal twins who look identical
mxWDx TIL Between 2006 and 2007 Poland’s prime minister and president were identical twin brothers, making them the first brothers in history to hold a country’s prime ministership and presidency at the same time.
4Xgaw TIL: The band Chicago was so fond of cocaine that during a tour in the 1970's they put a fake phone booth on stage called the "Snortitorium" so they could do lines mid-concert without going backstage.
b9VZ7 TIL the hole in Alice in Wonderland was inspired by the gypsum sinkholes in Ripon, Yorkshire. A girl called Mary Badcock may have inspired Alice, and in 1999 there was a sinkhole in her garden.
gjw9 TIL that cruise ships dump 1 billion gallons of sewage into the ocean every year