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TIL that ‘prom’ is short for promenade.

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OK11 TIL NASA has 2 satellites chasing eachother around the Earth tracking the distance between themselves to measure gravitational anomalies. Their nicknames are Tom & Jerry!
KYYlQ TIL Mark Twain declared that he discovered the right way to do an autobiography by talking about whatever interested him at the moment rather than writing it chronologically. From his bed, Twain dictated nearly 2,000 pages of the book to his stenographer over three years
R70Y8 TIL of our "2nd brain" hidden in the walls of the digestive system. “The enteric nervous system doesn’t seem capable of thought as we know it, but it communicates back and forth with our big brain—with profound results.” according to Jay Pasricha, M.D., of Johns Hopkins.
Ookk7 TIL Julius Caesar’s only son, Caesarion, was the last Pharaoh of Egypt. Even though Cleopatra swears he is Caesar’s son, Caesar never officially acknowledged him.
kdd TIL that the Star Wars theme was released as a single with the Cantina song, and reached number 1 on the U.S. Hot 100 in 1977.