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TIL: That our solar system is flying through the Milky Way Galaxy at an incomprehensible 828,000 Kilometers an hour, but the Milky Way is so big that it still takes the Solar System 230 million years to orbit it.

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yeoM TIL there was a man named Johnny Kennedy whose skin fell off at the slightest touch. Despite being in constant agony, he kept up a positive outlook. In his documentary, he made a joke that “Any bumps or excessive friction, such as constant wanking, doesn't go well with the condition”.
M7Xva TIL the actress/journalist Lisa Lu Yan is the only person who is a member of both the 87 member Hollywood Foreign Press Association that awards the Golden Globes and the 9,900+ member Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that awards the Oscars.
a8r09 TIL the painting American Gothic is not a portray of a husband and wife, but a farmer standing beside his unmarried daughter.
awl1Z TIL that Ted Bundy was offered a plea deal of 75 years in prison if he confessed to some of his murders, but he backed out at the last minute because accepting meant he had to admit to the world that he was guilty and "he just couldn't do it". He was later executed via the electric chair.
YKyd TIL Charles Darwin suffered from agoraphobia (panic disorder). He suffered constant nausea, trembling, and crying; rendering him virtually bedridden from the age of 30 until his death. His disorder was so severe he even avoided conversations with his own children.