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TIL that by the year 40,272 AD, Voyager 1 will actually be closer to a different star, Gliese 445, than it will be to our very own Sun.

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GYvnG TIL the US has been monitoring its own citizens since World War 1.
W71j9 TIL the Chinese version of instagram is literally called ‘LittleRedBook’, a pun based on Facebook and Mao’s famous book of quotes.
DX5J TIL that a 17 year old survivor of the 2011 Norway attack was arrested, stripped naked and jailed on suspicion of carrying out the attack due to his alleged lack of emotion upon being rescued. He was released after the police discovered he was a traumatized survivor of the Chechen war.
kO0xg TIL Goodhart's Law, the principle that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. For example, when a government tries to bring down unemployment figures to demonstrate how well the economy is doing, unemployment figures stop being a good measure of the economy.
90Am TIL in Bram Stokers original novel, Dracula is not killed by sunlight. He just becomes weaker.