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TIL that our solar system is ‘unusual’ in that it only has one star, more than half of the stars in the sky are binary or triple, Jupiter could have been our second star

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gbjW TIL Andrew jackson’s opponents called him a jackass, so he adopted the name and used it as his own campaign symbol. It eventually became the symbol for the entire democratic party.
M0y8 TIL former Telstra CEO Solomon Trujillo, of Hispanic descent, told the BBC that he found Australia to be racist, backward and like “stepping back in time”. The Prime Minister’s response was “adios”
Wk6O8 TIL researchers have discovered multiple hidden "civilizations" of octupuses referred to as Octlantis
v1rrL TIL that Indian surgeons were performing successful rhinoplasties as early as 600 BC. They'd slice an upside-down nose shape from your forehead skin, twist it around, and insert hollow bamboo sticks for you to breathe through.
0dyN5 TIL although Alaska cost 2 cents per acre when it was purchased for $7 million, it is an expensive place to govern due to how remote it is, its weather and natural disasters like the 1967 earthquake. Projects like the Alaska railroad were also more difficult and expensive to execute than anticipated