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TIL the ‘Eye of Sauron’ is approximately 62 million light-years away from Earth

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v1ZKL TIL in an early draft of Back to the Future, the time machine was a refrigerator. It was changed because Robert Zemeckis was afraid kids would imitate the film and get trapped.
1L54 TIL that Apollo 12 astronaut Alan L Bean accidentally destroyed the mission’s TV camera by pointing it at the sun, left several rolls of exposed film on the moon by mistake, and was hit on the head by a 16mm film camera when the crew splashed down on Earth.
Xp48 TIL that the male brain is on average 9% larger than a female brain, even after correcting for body size.
D1jNP TIL of the Dobbertin Surface Orbiter, a all-terrain vehicle created from a stainless steel milk tanker, has covered 33,000 miles on land, has passed through 28 countries, transits the open ocean and is the first car to transit the Panama Canal.
eZl6 TIL There is a lake filled with jellyfish, completely harmless due to lack of predators to defend against.