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TIL On average, Mercury is the closest planet to Earth — and to every other planet in the solar system

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oBRD7 TIL Santa Clause was depicted as "skinny and elf-like" until a Coca-Cola ad made him the fat, jolly fellow that we know today.
wLxnE TIL Shanghai's Tongji University started as the German Medical School in Shanghai in 1907 with funding from the German government. It became a university in 1923, receiving its funding direct from the Chinese government
8768 TIL that diesel fuel turns into a gel at low temperatures, and cannot flow into the engine. This is why some school close when the temperature is low enough to turn the fuel into a gel, preventing the buses from running.
69dWJ TIL "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" is a song known as "Like the Wind" recorded from a radio broadcast in West Germany in the early 1980s. Despite extensive searching, the band behind the song remains completely unidentified.
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