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TIL the sun is a near perfect sphere. The difference between its equatorial and polar diameters is only about 10km

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9KQm TIL of a jobless Irish lady who won a lotto jackpot of $46m. She now plans to donate all but $2m to her town and to give local people a chance. She said “I know what it’s like to have nothing …that’s why I’m giving it away - I can’t miss what I never had.”
vPDb8 TIL in 1942 Disney made a cartoon about donating bacon grease to help win the war
W7VM4 TIL there are ancient rock formations that show evidence of early life called Stromatolites. They are formed by mats of microbial life that collect sediment in layers. They have been dated back to 3.45 BYA, making those microbes some of the earliest life on Earth.
GYZWG TIL Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics for the Star Trek theme, never intending for them to be used. This got him 50 percent of the royalties.
OoyL TIL the “liquid bomb” terror attack, the one that caused the TSA to restrict the size of your shampoo and buy water inside the security gates, was thrown out of court and the ringleader totally acquitted. There was ZERO actual threat.