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TIL our star is called the Sun but doesn't have an actual name. *Not even Sol.

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b67aj TIL Frankenstein did not have a hunchback assistant called Igor in either Mary Shelley's novel or the original Universal and Hammer films. The character is a pastiche of multiple characters across several movies.
Lkewd TIL that Hubble Space Telescope takes only B&W photos and then the colors are added later!
XEkBR TIL The combined space taken up by all golf courses in the United States would be larger than the state of Rhode Island
QNxGk TIL that the most recent bubonic plague pandemic lasted from 1855 to 1960, killing 15 million people worldwide.
9w7x6 TIL that Sigmund Freud was a Cocaine Addict, and he personally prescribed it to his wife and friends