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TIL the world’s deepest hole is only 7.6 miles deep. Rock density prevents us from digging any further. We know more about the surface of other planets than we do about Earth’s core.

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OoYpX TIL "Orko" from He–Man & the Masters of the Universe was originally named "Gorpo". The cartoon company Filmation was so cheap they changed his name to "Orko" so they could flip & reuse his animation cells more efficiently. Originally he had a big "G" on him that couldn't be reversed like an "O".
R5eoj TIL The teddy bear, or Teddy's bear, was named after President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, an avid hunter and sportsman, when he was ridiculed for not shooting a clubbed and captured bear during a hunting trip because he said it would be unsportsmanlike.
wYEP TIL that spouse abandonment after cancer or MS diagnosis is 6x more likely when ill spouse is female
AE4l TIL that Stephen King has made large charitable donations without announcing them because he was “raised firmly to believe that if you give away money and you make a big deal of it so that everybody sees it, that’s hubris. … you’re not supposed to make a big deal about it”
DQ9MP TIL about "Cocaine Bear," a real black bear that accidentally consumed a duffel bag full of cocaine in 1985. The drugs were dropped from a plane by a drug smuggler, Andrew Thornton, who later died during a botched parachute jump. The bear ingested over 75 pounds of cocaine and died almost instantly