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TIL The great conjunction is the time where Jupiter and Saturn meet. It coincides with winter solstice this year.

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WkPBd TIL a Belgian businessman was instrumental to the Manhattan Project's success. Realizing uranium's importance, he shipped 1,200 tons of it to Staten Island. When Lieutenant Colonel Nichols contacted him, he simply responded: "You can have the ore now. It is in New York. I was waiting for your visit"
VQg4 TIL a texas man once spent 22 days using only his nose to push a peanut all the way up Pikes Peak (for a $50 bet)
ZpDpa TIL: USC removed their John Wayne exhibit because of the bigoted remarks he had made during his life.
7yXb TIL that a man in Saudi Arabia installed a fridge on the street and stocks it with free food for the homeless people in his neighborhood.
rRaly TIL ain't was a socially acceptable contraction and was used by the educated and the upper-class throughout the 17th to 19th century.