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TIL the biggest structure in the universe is over 10 billion light years across but we have no idea how it was formed.

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RWd4 TIL in 1972 a pocket of uranium in Africa was found to have undergone self-sustaining nuclear fission for over 100,000 years, making it the only known naturally formed nuclear reactor.
loDeV TIL that 7-Eleven(formerly Southland Ice) got it's name to bring attention to them expanding their hours of operation to 7am-11pm.
o4AE TIL in 1987 Lynne Cox swam from the United States to The Soviet Union (Little Diomede in Alaska to Big Diomede) and in the process eased Cold War tensions.
eyy6 TIL that Iranian government has more American PhD degree holder in ministerial/cabinet position than the United States government.
kJld1 TIL that study that says men divorce their sick wives was retracted in 2015 for a major error that severely skewed its results ("no response" was classified as "getting divorced" for men). Men do not actually divorce their sick wives at a higher rate than women divorce sick husbands.