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TIL Despite looking like a rectangle on maps, Colorado is actually a concave polygon with 697 sides.

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4gA6 TIL China shut down nearby factories and ordered half the cars off the road to reduce pollution during the Olympics.
0wlmR Today I Learned that Neil Armstrong was paid the 2021 equivalent of around $490 for the time he spent on the moon.
oBwJr TIL that by mass, polonium-210 is nearly 250,000 times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide
91Bp TIL when the ISS flys above an aurora they have to replace all the hard drives in their laptops
oBnvr TIL the guy who managed Guinness Breweries in the 1950s went to a shooting party, where he missed his shot at a golden plover. In his defence, he argued it was the fastest game bird in Europe, but couldn’t find a reference book that proved it. That’s why he created the Guinness Book of Records.