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TIL - there is an empty point in space where the gravity from the earth and the Sun is equal, and objects can orbit it as if there was something there.

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MEDK TIL that the Presidents of the United States from the end of the Civil War until the 1890s were called the ‘Forgettable Presidents’ because they were either impeached, assassinated, disgraced by their own party, surrounded by corruption, or possibly fraudulently elected
OkmR TIL 16% of the world’s population, 1.1 billion are atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion
OnyL TIL a farmer in China grows Buddha shaped pears.
O9mg TIL that a woman without a vagina performed oral sex, got in a knife fight, and was impregnated when the sperm passed from her stomach to her uterus. This was in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
WpOY TIL that store-bought mayonnaise, often blamed for food poisoning, actually inhibits the growth of bacteria. Food poisoning on a picnic is almost always caused by some other ingredient, like chicken.