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TIL, On Pluto the Sun is just a dot that will hurt to look at.

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6E7xW TIL of Wally Funk, who became an aviator at 20, and in 1961 volunteered to be part of the Women in Space program. She scored higher on tests than future astronaut John Glenn. The program was cancelled. Today, at 86, she continues to fly, and has a ticket to fly into space with Virgin Galactic.
j6G5E TIL the longest range gunnery hit in naval combat is 26,000 yards, shared between HMS Warspite against Giulio Cesare in July 1940 and Scharnhorst against HMS Glorious a month before.
QGgd TIL One million seconds is a little over 11 days and one billion seconds is over 31 years.
8aoYX TIL During World War II, STEINWAY AND SONS sometimes airdropped pianos onto battlefields for the American troops.
v1J1K TIL Shakespeare didn't write alone - he had a co-writer for at least three of his plays ( Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen and a lost play called Cardenio)