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TIL that on Jupiter's moon Io, tidal effects from Jupiter cause the ground itself to move up and down by 300 feet. Typical tidal range on earth is 3 feet in the open ocean.

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epP9J TIL a 2,000-year-old sapphire ring believed to have been owned by Roman Emperor Caligula sold for £500,000 in 2019. The sky blue ring also has an etching on it that's thought to depict Caligula's fourth and last wife, Caesonia.
neyLr TIL of Oseola McCarty, a Mississippi washerwoman who has saved $280k by retirement at age 86, donating $150k to establish and endowment for poor African American students in Mississippi
jEEp TIL that France lost so many workers during its failed attempt to dig the Panama Canal, that for a time their project’s MAIN source of income was selling the corpses (pickled in brine water) to medical schools all over the world as cadavers.
9Y11G TIL In 1997, Boris Yeltsin refused to allow the President of Belarus to let his aircraft into Russia, forcing him to cancel a regional visit. Yeltsin sent a telegram saying the visit could take place only under certain conditions related to the release of a television journalist detained in Belarus
e0eK4 TIL Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry sold his prized 1959 Les Paul during his divorce and lost track of it until he found Slash in a magazine holding the same guitar. For years Slash refused to sell it back until he finally gave it to Perry as a gift on his 50th birthday.