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TIL that the dome of the Neutrino detector under the mount Gran Sasso (Italy), has been done with bricks of lead 2000 years old found in a anciet Roman ship

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l7RbA TIL Victor Vescovo is the first person to complete the "Explorers' Extreme Trifecta" of land, sea & air by: summiting Mount Everest (the highest point on Earth), diving to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (the deepest point on Earth), & entering space (crossing the 100-km-high Kármán Line).
nWVnr TIL Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, will become the South Star in the year 66,270 AD. It’s slowing moving towards Earth’s geographic South Pole like how Polaris is the currently the North Star.
a88NJ TIL On the day she finished writing her suicide letter, 17 year-old Lisa McVey was adducted and assaulted my a serial killer, only to escape and become a motivational speaker
P1NLn TIL a 2019 study documented how the percentage of heterosexual married couples who met online rose from only 2% in 1998 to 20% in 2008 and then to nearly 50% in 2017, which made it the dominant form of initial contact for couples who marry.
YXvr TIL that Pandora’s “box” was actually a jar type known as a pithos.