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TIL that Earth orbits where the Sun currently is in real-time, not where it was 8 minutes ago - even though gravity propagates at light speed. Newtonian gravitation does not work unless it is assumed to be instantaneous.

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k5m TIL there is a diamond mine so large that it creates air currents that can suck a helicopter into it.
78JxX TIL The English expression "A little bird told me" originates from St. Gregory, who received divine inspiration through a dove
JDxm TIL Graham crackers were invented to make people stop masturbating.
gJlb TIL the Dung Beetle is the only known insect that uses the Milky Way as a reference to moving in a straight line despite not being able to see individual stars. Scientists initially thought they were using the moon, however, they still moved in a straight line on moonless nights.
jkQp TIL Louis Le Prince, who filmed the first ever motion pictures, disappeared without a trace in 1890. Thomas Edison soon took credit as the first and sole inventor of cinema, and even took Le Prince’s son to court to dispute it. Few years later, the son also died under mysterious circumstances.