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TIL we get more starlight during the day than at night

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Y7L7P TIL: Panama is the only place on the planet that has square trees- even the transplanted trees from the square trees grow round as usual when planted in other places outside of Panama. And the “rings,” of the interior tree grow in a square shape, rather than the usual circle, making it truly unique.
XDMj TIL there are 340,000 to 680,000 slaves in Mauritania
Lkkyp TIL George’s Lemaître, a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, physicist and astronomer is credited with the first formulation of an expanding universe idea, what was to become the Big Bang theory.
BrYPr TIL that the 1989 rap album: As Nasty As They Wanna Be, resulted in a court case where the federal government wanted to censor the music on the album due to its obscenity, had they won, the precedent set would have made Hip-Hop artists lose the right to their freedom of speech.
EXjd TIL that “percussive maintenance” is the term for hitting something until it works