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TIL that the sun is extremely loud

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MeD60 TIL Alexander the Great wept when he heard Anaxarchus teach about an infinite number of worlds. When his friends inquired what ailed him, "Is it not worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?"
pLPO TIL that John Adams’s daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy without anesthesia in 1811
x66w1 TIL polar bears have transparent hollow fur and black skin
VM0lk TIL Disney insisted Jack Skellington have eyes as the eyes are what connects the character with the audience. Tim Burton and Selick wouldn't budge, and ultimately proved their anti-hero didn't need oculars to connect with the viewer.
W75W4 TIL the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington Virginia is actually named the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial.