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TIL of a comet that survived passing through the Sun

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kOXa7 TIL that the biggest earthquake ever recorded happened in May 22, 1960 in Valdivia, Chile, also known as the Great Chilean earthquake had recorded in a magnitude of 9.5
p8Brb TIL that at around 20 metres underwater gravity overtakes the buoyancy of your body and you start falling towards the centre of the earth.
gMakL TIL The Cult Awareness Network (CAN), once a leading anti-cult hotline, is now owned by the Church of Scientology.
JYkg1 TIL The fictional city, Ankh-Morpork, from the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, is twinned with Wincanton, in Somerset, UK, and the town is the first to name streets after their fictional equivalents.
wLD1J TIL of Dorothy Levitt: Among her many achievements, she held the water speed record, the women's land speed record, and even lays claim to inventing the rear-view mirror—seven years before being adopted by manufacturers.