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TIL Only about 7 new stars are formed in the Milky Way each year

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8agrV TIL of David Douglas: A Scottish botanist/explorer who became the first mountaineer in America. When climbing Mauna Kea in Hawaii he fell (or was pushed) into a pit trap with spikes. A bull then fell on top of him, crushing him to death.
7yEr TIL when President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981 and was taken into surgery, Reagan removed his oxygen mask to joke, “I hope you are all Republicans.”
891b TIL Salma Hayek as a young teen went to a church that was supposed to perform miracles, and wished for breasts.
kOGMB TIL that in cases of spinal injury emergency doctors may check for the 'bulbocavernosus reflex' where they squeeze head of the penis or the clitoris while their finger is inside the anus to check for contraction of the anal sphincter. Absence of this reflex indicates spinal cord damage
kOr8e TIL that Dr. Dre suffers from social anxiety and due to this he remains secluded and out of the spotlight.