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TIL “wandering star” is another name for the planets visible to the naked eye because they “wander” across the sky relative to the fixed backdrop of stars

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VMkAG TIL in 1989, MLB broadcaster Jim Rooker said he'd walk back to Pittsburgh from Philadelphia if the Pirates blew a 10-run lead. When the Phillies came back and won 15-11, Rooker hosted a a 300-plus-mile charity walk from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.
QNPa6 TIL that DRC Prophet, Dominique Khonde, Makes Millions With Aids 'Cure' Juice. The juice is a mixture of gasoline and other ingredients and costs 14€, 1/3 of the average citizen’s monthly salary.
NXjLe TIL about a 16th century book that opens six different ways, revealing six different books in one
e069E TIL that Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, rejected religion, and considered himself a humanist. Around age 14 he concluded that religion was nonsense. According to Ronald D. Moore, Roddenberry "felt very strongly that contemporary Earth religions would be gone by the 23rd century."
VBBbQ TIL one of the first uses of biological agents for murder was in Calcutta, 1933, when Benoyendra Pandey secretly injected Plague into his brother on a train station over a property dispute. He had a previously failed attempt using Tetanus laced spectacles