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TIL eVscope users have the ability to participate in Citizen Science efforts led by the SETI Institute. The smart telescope technology (4.5 inch reflector) is sensitive enough to image the transit of exoplanets and the occultation of a star by a Trojan Asteroid

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5V8oR TIL of the saola aka 'the Asian unicorn'. It is one of the world's rarest large mammals and is a forest-dwelling bovine native to Vietnam and Laos. It was first described and photographed in 1993. Saolas have since been kept in captivity multiple times, but they died within weeks and months.
neVWP TIL that the Vatican is the largest wine consumer in the world per capita. Each resident of the city-state consumes an average of 74 liters of wine per year, or nearly 100 bottles. This is twice as much as in France and seven times more than in the United States.
QKkE TIL that Michelle Pfeiffer actually performed her whip stunts in the film ‘Batman Returns’; the famous mannequin trick was shot in one take, surprising even her trainer (Anthony De Longis)!
grLVD TIL that the first McDonald's restaurant in Australia opened in 1971 in Yagoona, New South Wales. It was the 100th McDonald's globally and marked the start of the brand's iconic presence in Australia
78M7X Til that by 1910, 10% of tuberculosis cases were caused by raw milk consumption, and by 1938 25% of all food/waterborne disease was linked to unpasteurized milk, regardless of farm hygiene or symptomatic status of the animal. This predates factory farming.