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TIL That there is an asteroid that is following Earth’s orbit around the sun.

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mxKdv TIL there is a controversial murder defence called the 'rough sex murder defence', or '50 Shades defence', which asserts that the victim consented or even demanded sexual practices that led to the homicide.
JYJMQ TIL 2 Things: "Master Putter-Togetherer" is an actual job title...and they put together REALLY expensive, high-quality scissors
VM4dZ TIL in 1991, Escobar invited Maradona to play football with him in luxurious prison- La Catedral. It was followed up with a lavish party.
6EDZZ TIL that the CocaCola-Mentos reaction is not a chemical but a physical reaction. Gas dissolved in CocaCola needs a surface to form on. We can increase that surface by adding Mentos. The microscopic surface of Mentos is quite rough, so it allows a lot of gas to form and it creates a lot of pressure.
VBJ1k TIL Little Shop of Horrors has two endings. One where Audrey and Seymour get married and live happily ever after (the ending I grew up with) and an ending where Audrey and Seymour die and a bunch of Audrey 2s take over the world