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TIL that “percussive maintenance” is the term for hitting something until it works

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Bgr1W TIL The Sun Orbits the Center of the Milky Way, and It Takes 225-250 million years to do it once. The last time we were in the same position was during the Jurassic Period.
O8O4 TIL the Pixar Theory states that all Pixar movies exist in the same universe at different times. One character, Boo, pulls all the movies together.
9wdE6 TIL Batman creator Bob Kane originally designed the Batsuit as a red jumpsuit with bat wings and a small black domino mask that revealed Bruce Wayne's blonde hair. It was Bill Finger that designed the darker suit and cowl for the Caped Crusader.
gna4 TIL seeing a single extra upvote very early in a comment’s life could change a user’s mind about how they feel about a comment, regardless of what the comment actually said.
0bGR TIL The Murchison meteorite that crashed in Australia contains uracil and xanthine (guanine derivative) nucleobases (DNA components) that were proven to be of non-Earth origin/contamination due to the amount of carbon-13.