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TIL that Hello kitty is the second highest-grossing media franchise after Pokémon

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NLRP TIL that Sgt. William Carney received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the 2nd Battle of Ft. Wagner, in which Carney grabbed the U.S. flag as the flag bearer fell, carried the flag to the enemy ramparts and back, saying, “Boys, I only did my duty; the old flag never touched the ground!”
OoMMa TIL a man named Andrew Taylor ate only potatoes for an entire year and lost 117lbs.
POJJ TIL Andromeda is falling towards our home Galaxy at a rate of 110 kilometres per second and in 4 billion years, the two galaxies will pass through each other. 2 billion years after that, they will fall back in a permanent embrace to form a single galaxy.
epBgL TIL fiber optics can be found in nature, in the deep sea, and they are more flexible than the man made ones
5VaJR TIL that CNN has a video prepared to air at the end of the world