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TIL that the sun does not rotate as a solid body but that the equator rotates faster than the poles

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nWWMr TIL that nearly one-fifth of the population of Brampton, Ontario has Punjabi as its mother tongue
bGdN TIL that Pantheism is belief that God did not create the universe, but rather the universe is God
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