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TIL A top NASA astronaut was accused of hacking her estranged spouse's bank account from space

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LkBkr TIL Proxima Centuauri, the nearest-known star to the Sun, is 4.244 lightyears (about 40.15 trillion kilometres or 24.95 trillion miles) away from it.
NnD6 TIL that every bridge and tunnel in Switzerland is designed with built in explosives so that the county can quickly be turned into a mountain fortress during times of war.
ep0MD TIL that the reason Hawaii has the union jack on the top of its flag isnt because they were colonized by the UK, but rather because the king at the time liked the design of the flag when the British arrived
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