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TIL when sliced bread was invented it was described as the best thing since wrapped bread

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d8m59 TIL the worlds largest scale model of the Solar system exist in Sweden. The Sun is a large spherical arena in Stockholm with 110m in diameter. 300km north of it is Pluto, a small sphere of 12 cm in diameter constructed next to a lake believed to have been created by a meteorite impact.
J1pBv TIL the US Intelligence Community has a private wiki called Intellipedia
4k6LJ TIL: Per vehicle miles traveled in 2020, motorcyclist fatalities occurred nearly 28 times more frequently than passenger car occupant fatalities in traffic crashes.
1ajw7 TIL about ghost bikes, which are bicycles painted white, used to symbolize where a cyclist was killed
8KWX TIL that there are 20 planets with a rating of 80+ habitat conditions, meaning that we can colonize said planets.