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TIL that NASA’s internet speed is 91 Gigabits per second

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9wOmM TIL that there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way. In fact, there are around 422 trees per person on earth.
4Xd7R TIL about the "Grievance Studies affair" where three academics produced bogus papers to expose how lax academic journals had become. One paper that was accepted and published by the Journal Affilia included long excerpts from Hitlers Mein Kampf where the word "Jew" was replaced with "White Man".
QA0k TIL That Pope Leo I met with Attila the Hun and convinced him not to invade Rome
BrBmK TIL about dry ice on Mars. This is a winter image of dry ice on Mars showing eroded channels filled with frozen carbon dioxide that appear like white ghostly spiders. During the Martian summer the ice will sublimate into the atmosphere, leaving the empty channels behind until Martian winter returns.
VBkdp TIL that Leonard Nimoy refused to join Star Trek the Animated Series without George Takai and Nichelle Nichols claiming they were proof of ethic diversity in the 23rd century.