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TIL David Carradine (Kill Bill) is still appearing in films and TV even though he died in 2009

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E1j4p TIL our solar system is surrounded by an 89,000 degree (F) orb of plasma created by the interaction between the sun and interstellar winds.
loWx7 TIL the founder of Toys-R-Us, Charles Lazarus, died a week after Toys-R-Us announced it would be forced to close its retail stores.
b6ljN TIL: Sockets aren't perfectly hexagonal, but are rounded in the corners to prevent rounding of nuts. (And that this was a result of developing tools for working on aircraft in wartime).
D15Vp TIL for every bird killed by a windmill around 1700 are killed by cars.
GYk95 TIL that Gandhi wrote 2 letters to Hitler, one a month before the war and one in during it, both of which were intercepted by the British and never made it to Hitler.