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TIL that planets “emit sounds” by pulsing with radio waves, which can be picked up by radio antennae. The Earth’s noise is sometimes referred to as Earth’s “chorus” because it sounds a bit like birds chirping.

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E1p5o TIL the planet Earth is approximately halfway between the formation of the previous super continent "Pangea", which formed about 300 million years ago and existed until about 150 million years ago, and the next possible super continent, which may form in the future in about 250 million years
0dW81 TIL An engineer named Walter "Taffy" Holden accidentally took off in a military jet without knowing how to fly it
epwdJ TIL: Some car commercials are done with CGI. This is done because these commercials are often shot before the cars have actually been manufactured. Also it’s much harder to move these cars to the shooting locations. They use a car called the Mill Blackbird for the CGI.
YE8r TIL an English organist named Jeremiah Clarke wanted to commit suicide. He couldn’t decide whether to hang himself or drown so he flipped a coin. The coin landed on it’s edge in the mud so he ended up shooting himself instead.
R7aw4 TIL at $1.5 trillion, the Greater New York area's contribution to the US economy not only outstrips all other regions in the Unites States, it also exceeds the GDP of all but 11 countries.