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TIL that Rose from the movie Titanic was only 17 years old.

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kEJE TIL of Margaret Abbott, a woman who competed in and won a golf tournament in Paris. After her death, it was discovered that this tournament was part of the poorly-organized 1900 Olympics. She never knew she was an Olympian.
16v0d TIL about Tehching Hsieh, a performance artist who jumped off buildings, went homeless voluntarily and punched a time clock every hour for a year in the name of art.
pYEXN TIL that there was a Portuguese man raised in South Africa called Fernando Pessoa who had around 70 different personalities.
MaJK TIL that the crew of Skylab 4 found inflatable dummies in work position when they arrived, left by the crew before them as a joke.
w761 TIL that the sun revolves around the Milky Way, it’s called a galactic year, and takes 250 mil. years to cycle. We are literally on the same cycle that started when the dinosaurs roamed. Meaning we are physically somewhere new in space that we’ve never been before every second until this day.