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TIL that Voyager 1 is so far from us that the light distance between us is ≈22 hours. That means that Voyager see 22h in the past if it could look at Earth.

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d87EB TIL that Americans consume an average of 152 pounds of sugar a year each. If the population of the US is 328,000,000 people, that means that the US consumes 25,000,000 tons of sugar a year on average. This number does not include the amount of sugar exported in products to other countries.
nekmo TIL former actor Jake Lloyd, the man who played young Anakin in The Phantom Menace, was bullied so much for his role he quit acting and destroyed his Star Wars merch. Later he would be arrested for reckless driving without a license and has been transferred to a psych facility for schizophrenia.
omOW TIL that chipmunks are omnivores and occasionally eat birds and even mice.
xgR1 TIL of ‘Tent City’, an Arizona jail built out of old military tents, operational since 1993
epwvb TIL the Native American Single Tear actor was actually Sicilian, not Native American