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TIL It takes 100 000 years for gamma rays formed in the core of the sun to be emitted as the light we see

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kJenB TIL Lexi Alexander based Punisher: War Zone's limited colour palate on the box of comics Marvel sent her when she signed on to direct the film. It was only later that she discovered that she'd been sent cheap, three-colour copies of the original comics to save money.
rR7Rx TIL Ladybugs are highly promiscuous cannibals and were found to have the first known case of STDs in insects
evk6 TIL the the name ‘Hotmail’ was chosen as a homage to 'HTML’.
yVWnp TIL that adultery is a punishable crime in US military. Anyone caught is court-martialed
XEXk6 TIL about the Icarians, a French-based utopian socialist movement in the United States, established by the followers of politician and journalist Étienne Cabet, who invented the word "communism" in 1839.