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TIL NASA has online 3D models of all of the planets in our solar system, as well as several moons, probes, and the ISS.

Read more solarsystem.nasa.gov

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eXvE TIL that during her adult life, Queen Victoria was estimated to have written 2,500 words a day.
4XkwR TIL all New Orleans public schools were closed indefinitely in the wake of Katrina and students now attend private or public charter schools.
QNJK6 TIL about Robert Evans, a church minister and an amateur astronomer who holds the record for visual discoveries of supernova. Utilizing nothing more than modest telescopes sited in his own backyard and an astonishing visual memory for star fields and galactic features, Evans has discovered 39 supern
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