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TIL there’s a state in Australia that’s nearly four times the size of Texas with less than 1/10th the population.

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ADRVa Today I learned The Brave Little Toaster was a book before it was a movie. Also that a 1st edition copy can go for over 100$.
9w51r TIL the Voyager missions launched when it launched, so as to take advantage (for the purpose of gravitational assist) of a rare alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, that happens only once, every 175 years.
KDQ6 TIL that Al Capone’s WWI draft card claimed he was a “paper cutter”
4knV6 TIL of the Ovitz family, not only the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded but also the largest family (12 people ranging from a 15-month-old baby to a 58-year-old woman) to enter Auschwitz and survive intact
EgnvP TIL that of the two possible sources of the Wow! (1977) space signal, one would indicate it is heading toward Earth.