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TIL The nation of Bhutan doesn’t have an independence day because it has been independent for the entirety of its history

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grmP4 Today I learned that a 50,000-Year-Old Needle was found in a Denisova Cave
PY9Lw TIL when Stephen Hawking met with the Pope in the Vatican, the Pope knelt down when he had trouble understand Hawking. This prompted one scientist in the room to say that "things certainly have changed since Galileo."
8eXpL TIL that a very bright Pulsar, NGC 5907 X-1 was discovered on February 21, 2017. For the time, it broke two records, brightest, and farthest.
xVOB5 TIL that the story of the Chernobyl fireman's wife is deemed impossible by Robert Gale, a UCLA doctor who treated radiation victims
E1e7p TIL the USSR used a nuclear bomb to put out a gas well fire.