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TIL that Jupiter has 95 moons (and counting). More are expected to be found as technology improves.

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8aD94 TIL Harriet Tubman suffered a violent head injury as a child causing her to frequently slip into into sleep like states. These would produce vivid dreamlike hallucinations that Tubman interpreted as messages from god, to devote her life to freeing southern slaves through the Underground Railroad.
VMBwZ TIL that because some towns in America are so small they have 6 man football teams instead of the usual 11 man team.
OnL6 TIL John Grey, author of “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”, has his doctorate from a now defunct degree mill, and is divorced from his first wife, who is also a marriage counselor.
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.
nerDY TIL that on 12th April 1945, for their last performance before the end of WW2, the Berlin Philharmonic performed Wagner's 'Götterdämmerung' - Twilight of the Gods - while the Hitler Youth distributed cyanide pills to the audience so they could kill themselves.