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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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78yyZ TIL Willem Dafoe played a fictionalized version of German actor Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), produced by Nicolas Cage, earning an Oscar nomination for his role. Schreck originally portrayed Count Orlok in the 1922 Nosferatu. Dafoe later starred in the 2024 remake of Nosferatu.
R967 TIL Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, signed by John Adams, contains the line “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”
6EYrl TIL William Willburforce and Pitt - as 23 year old uni mates who became MPs - went on a Lads on Tour holiday to meet up with Benjamin Franklin, General Lafayette, Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. When the lads returned Pitt was immediately made Prime Minister & Wilburforce went on to abolish slavery
GYOYj TIL that B92, a dissident radio station in Serbia, played Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' on repeat when they were banned from broadcasting news. The song became an anti-Milošević anthem in 1991.
4kgxa TIL Maria Rasputin (the daughter of Grigori Rasputin, the infamous mystic and close friend of Russia's last czar) immigrated to the U.S. and joined the cirus as a lion tamer.