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TIL due to an extraordinary coincidence, one inch is to one mile as one AU (distance from Earth to Sun) is to one Light-Year. This helps you grasp just how big the universe is. The Earth is 26,000 Light Years from the center of the Milky Way

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Gvng TIL a study conducted by YouGov, a research organization that use online polling, discovered that the average American thinks they’re smarter than the average American
ogr8 TIL A Pyrrhic victory is one in which the victor incurs such damage on the path to victory that the outcome is no better than defeat.
xQWk TIL that Harpo (Arthur/Adolph) Marx is actually considered one of the greatest and most influential harpists in history, in spite of his unconventional playing style and never having learned to read music.
QNReM TIL that the sixth most common language in the world has no native speakers (Modern Standard Arabic)
VbdD TIL in 1927 an experiment was begun to show that solid pitch was actually a liquid. 89 years later the pitch has produced 9 drips.