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TIL shooting stars (meteors) can often times be as small as a grain of sand

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D1pKr TIL about the "Sad Nipple Syndrome", a biological condition of some women that would feel an intense sense of sadness when their nipples are touched.
9wDwr TIL that the most advanced semiconductors (as of 2023) are manufactured by precisely shooting a beam of plasma at a droplet of (molten) tin, creating an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) beam necessary to manufacture a 5nm transistor.
rNO4M TIL about the Avignon Papacy, a time between 1309-1376 when 7 French Popes moved the Papal Enclave from the Vatican to France.
EQlP TIL the only reason Russians are Greek Orthodoxy not Muslim is because Vladimir couldn’t get behind a religion that bans hard liquor.
Y7XVr TIL that the 727 (N467US) that was hijacked by DB Cooper in 1971 was later sold in 1984 and wound up being used for JANET flights from Las Vegas to Tonopah and Area 51 during the testing and production of the F117A Nighthawk program.