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TIL that due to their weakly interacting nature, neutrinos generated in the core of a collapsing star can escape before the shockwave and light of a supernova. They travel so fast that the light still doesn’t catch up with them even after traveling millions of light years.

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W1p8 TIL Stephen Hawking can only speak at 1 word per minute. He does this by twitching his cheek to control a cursor on a screen
kgpe TIL the Hawaiian Islands were originally named the Sandwich Islands by British explorers after the Earl of Sandwich
R5k9 TIL many shelters won’t allow black cats to be adopted around Halloween, for fear that they may be sacrificed or tortured
M7L60 TIL about the Ghost Camaro, a 1979 Chevrolet Camaro driven in combat by Danish Special Forces officer Helge Meyer during the Bosnian War. The black Ghost Camaro was stealthily driven at night to deliver humanitarian supplies to civilians, going where white U.N. supply vehicles couldn’t safely go.
Wk86L TIL that in 2010, an 18-year-old Indonesian man was found having sex with a cow, who he claimed flirted with him. In order to cleanse the village of the act of bestiality, the man was forced to ritually marry the cow. The cow was then drowned in the ocean, and the man was also symbolically drowned