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TIL the sun is not on fire. It produces heat and light through nuclear fusion rather than burning matter using oxygen.

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4gw6 TIL Dick Cheney Flunked out of Yale University Twice
l78Pa TIL that US is a neighboring country of South Korea and Japan because of Guam, a full fledge US territory with 168 thousands inhabitants despite it's not even on the same side of the Earth with continental US.
gZ8y TIL the Taliban offered to give up Osama bin Laden for trial before September 11, 2001.
pYrR4 TIL A 30-ton shipment of explosive chemicals traveling from Wyoming to California by rail just up and disappeared. Kinda freaked me out.
kORmd TIL that multiple studies have shown that CEOs with MBAs more likely to fail than non-MBA CEOs.