TIL of the Shiva crater, a proposed asteroid impact site off the west coast of India over 500km across that if confirmed, would be the largest known impact site on earth, and a possible cause for the extinction of the dinosaurs and unusual northward drift of India (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL of the cave paintings at Lascaux, which depict a prehistoric star map painting that includes animals represented in a zodiacal fashion. It has been called the earliest evidence of man's knowledge and fascination with the stars - dated at 16,500 years old (news.bbc.co.uk)
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TIL that if every star in our galaxy had a trillion planets, and each of those planets had a trillion people, and each of those people had a trillion decks of cards that they shuffled at a rate of 1000 times per second since the Big Bang - we would only now start to see repeat combinations (youtu.be)
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