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TIL: the planets don’t orbit the sun, instead they orbit the center of the solar system’s mass called the barycenter

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rprx TIL There is a chemotherapy drug that erases your finger prints as a side effect
ADQjg TIL that in 1995 on Brazilian TV there was an incident known as "the kicking of the saint" when a televangelist kicked a statue of the Virgin Mary on his show to prove its "inability to react, because it's made of clay." This sparked riots across Brazil and the televangelist fled the country.
m1GWE TIL That in the UK? You require a TV license to watch or stream any live content, barring PPV content. (Learned this after reading an article about the Tyson vs Paul fight)
yVjb8 TIL of gamma-ray bursts, immensely energetic explosions that occur when a giant star implodes and becomes a black hole. It can release as much energy in a few seconds as the Sun will in its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. It may also have caused a mass extinction on Earth 440 million years ago.
GxG4 TIL Disney considered creating a park called “Shadowland” or “Dark Kingdom” dedicated to villains.