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TIL about the The Difficult Conversations Lab where strangers who strongly disagree on a controversial topic are matched up to debate.

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Ooxv7 TIL: Callery Pear tree flowers smell like semen
xDo TIL The Romans DESTROYED a mountain…for gold.
AD5Ad TIL that presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline.
VMaeQ TIL in 1957 two planes collided over the San Fernando Valley and the debris killed 3 Pacoima Junior High School students in the playground below. Student and singer Ritchie Valens (of 'La Bamba' fame) missed school that day, but died tragically in a plane crash just 2 years later.
woxJW TIL the moon's orbit around the sun is almost a perfect circle instead of a spiral. In order for it to become a spiral, it would have to orbit around earth 30x faster.