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TIL the galaxy M100 is so far away that if beings from there were to look at Earth right now, they would be watching the realtime extinction of the dinosaurs.

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W7kgo TIL Pope Gregory XVI opposed gas lighting and railways, believing that they would create commerce and lead to liberal reforms. Gregory XVI in fact banned railways in the Papal States, calling them chemins d'enfer ("road to hell", a play on the French for railroad, chemin de fer, "iron road")
78ov7 TIL About CRISPR-Cas9’s New Frontier: Rewriting Genetic Memories and sickle cell disease.
VMAOD TIL Pitcairn Islands, one of the least populated and hardest to reach regions in the world, is home to some of the world's best bees. Producing some of the best honey in the world, Pitcairn's bees are also disease-free and docile towards beekeepers.
WkEvd TIL Bryan Cranston, at the age of 12, encountered a young Charles Manson while riding horses with his teenage cousin. This happened about a year before Manson committed the Tate-LaBianca murders.
DQDyj TIL that in 1990 Rupert Murdoch tried to buy the Palace of the Parliament in Romania, the biggest administrative building in the world for 1 billion dollars, his bid was rejected