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TIL Canada is so big that Cape Spear, Newfoundland is closer to London than to Vancouver.

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xELB TIL the longest prison escape is 46 years, by Leonard T. Friscoe who was finally turned in by his son.
kpo1 TIL the United States military is testing - a laser cannon that can be directed by an Xbox controller, an electromagnetic rail gun that can be placed on future tanks, and a ‘smart’ sniper rifle that can measure variables like wind conditions.
yQyya TIL around 1980 a man named Denis Hope have sold plots of land on the moon to notable people like Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Barbara Walters and even former president George H.W Bush, he claims the UN outer space treaty doesn't negate an individual claiming ownership for the moon.
X0kAP TIL that 38 CFR 3.12(d)(5) (which states what kind of sexual activities you can get dishonorably charged form the military for) only specifies homosexual relations, not hetero or otherwise.
KYVN4 TIL that the Nebra Sky Disc, a 3,600-year-old bronze artifact discovered in Germany, is the world's oldest known physical depiction of the cosmos with gold symbols for the sun, moon, and stars, including the Pleiades. The disc encodes accurate, useful celestial observation in a portable object.