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TIL in 2012 LL Cool J broke the nose, jaw, and ribs of a man charged with breaking into his home. His family was sleeping when their home security alarm went off at 1am, "sending LL Cool J into action". After catching the man, he held him until the authorities arrived.

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pY1ab Til that Nicholas Trist the amassador sent to negotiate the end to the Mexican American war was fired from his post by president Polk. Trist responded by ignoring Polk’s order to return to the US and continued to negotiate the end of the war with Mexico.
pY09Q TIL about primordial black holes (PBHs), hypothesized to have formed in the early universe; some small extra-dense spots collapsed into black holes as everything expanded and cooled down. It's also been hypothesized that dark matter, which constitutes 85% of the universe's mass, is made up of PBHs.
7a8x TIL A baby porcupine is called a ‘porcupette’
aZo TIL that the word “oxymoron” is an oxymoron itself. In Greek, it translates to “sharp dull”.
ZMZQ TIL the Sun has completed 18-20 orbits of the Milky Way galaxy since its birth but it has only completed 1/1250th of its orbit since the dawn of humans.