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TIL There is a void in space 1 billion light-years across with no detectable matter or dark matter.

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Egm6X TIL standard pointe (ballet) shoes are manufactured using a single last (mechanical form shaped like a foot), meaning there is no 'left' and 'right' shoe. Breaking in the shoes through use is what adapts them to the left or right foot
wRKo TIL that male puppies will let female puppies win when playing. Even if they have an advantage, just to keep the game going.
W7veo TIL the 1983 film "Taking Tiger Mountain" was based on William S. Burroughs' 1979 novel "Blade Runner: a Movie," which was originally a film treatment for Alan E. Nourse's 1973 novel "The Bladerunner" (the title of which was used for the otherwise unrelated 1982 film "Blade Runner").
QJOYd TIL Richard Scrushy, charged with masterminding $2.7 billion fraud case, came up with a novel strategy: "[play] the religion card" and become a televangelist to curry favor with jurors (the trial was held in Alabama). He was acquitted of all charges.
PMEw TIL that the portuguese man o war, isn’t one Jellyfish, it’s four animals living symbiotically.