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TIL the so-called ‘Pillars of Creation’, which are to be found within the Eagle Nebula. The nebula lies 6,500 light years away. The ‘pillar’ on the left is 4 light-years high, which is around 24,000,000,000,000 miles, (24 trillion).

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Kl44 TIL that in North Korea’s Prison Camps conditions are so bad that 20 to 25 per cent of the prison population dies every year [nsfw]
69oXJ TIL according to Nielsen: streaming services captured more viewers than cable TV for the first time ever in July 2022. Streaming had a 34.8% share of total television consumption during the month, followed by cable TV (34.4%) and broadcast TV (21.6%).
Z5No TIL that after the short-lived “Friends” spin-off “Joey” was cancelled, Joey’s living room set was donated to a medical personnel “simulation centre” where paramedics could conduct training exercises and have their performance recorded on camera
epmDn TIL: Winston Churchill wrote an estimated eight to ten million words in more than forty books, thousands of newspaper and magazine articles, and at least two film scripts. In 1953, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
v7XL TIL the parents of Donald Duck are Quackmore Duck and Hortense McDuck, Hortense being the sister of Scrooge McDuck and grandmother of Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck.