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TIL that core samples provided evidence that the tug of Jupiter and Venus has caused shifts in Earth’s orbit every 405,000 years for at least 415 Million years.

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NlPM TIL that after having his throat cut, Irish revolutionary leader Wolfe Tone was told that if he tried to speak he would re-open his wound and bleed to death. He replied, “So be it”, and died.
X04OX TIL while living in a French village in the 1950s, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett sometimes drove local children to school, including a young Andre the Giant and two bonded over their love of cricket, with Andre later recalling that the two rarely talked about anything else.
ydYp TIL Lindsay Lohan was approached to star in The Hangover. She declined because the screenplay ‘had no potential’
VQk8 TIL New York’s public schools are now more segregated than Mississippi’s.
xVApo TIL that renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma made his stateside debut at "The American Pageant of the Arts" at the age of 7. In attendance were sitting President John F Kennedy and former President Dwight D Eisenhower.