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TIL that Crossfire on CNN was cancelled shortly after Jon Stewart exposed them when he was invited as a guest.

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0do7v TIL the line where tourists take photos at the Royal Observatory Greenwich marks the historic Prime Meridian. Since 1988 the current standard prime meridian is 102.5m off the original line, hence if you look at your GPS on your phone at the historic line it won't show exactly zero degrees longitude
gMnD7 TIL that Pistachio Nuts are prone to spontaneous combustion if improperly stored or transported in large quantities due to a chemical reaction that continues to take place in the nuts even after they are harvested
ADNXo Of all the bodies in our solar system, the sun is probably the one we want to give the widest berth. It gushes radiation, and even though its surface is the coolest part of the star, it burns at about 9,940°F, hot enough to incinerate just about any material. As such, there are no plans to send a manned mission in its direction anytime soon (Mars is much more interesting, anyway), but it can't hurt to figure out at what distance a person would want to turn back. You can get surprisingly close.
xwOb TIL that the Republic of Nepal has given no names to its seven provinces, only serial numbers.
D10Kp TIL Amur (Siberian) tigers regularly prey on young bears and sub-adult brown bears. Reports of preying on fully grown small female adult Ussuri brown bears by a big male tiger are common as well. Certain tigers have been reported to imitate the calls of Asian black bears to attract them.