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TIL William Shatner starred in a Horror movie in 1965 in which he spoke entirely in Esperanto

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69ylW TIL 1930 Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, the second highest in US history, prompted retaliatory tariffs by many other countries and was a contributing factor to worsening the Great Depression
X0906 TIL Salvator Mundi is a painting by Leonardo de Vinci, in 2017 it was sold for 450 million dollars.It is the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. The painting was bought by a Saudi Prince, who has not put it on display.
Z8jVB TIL the Latin phrase Magnum Opus, that modernly refers to the greatest achievement of an artist or writer, was first used almost 2,000 years ago to describe the pursuit of the Philosopher's Stone, a legendary alchemical substance also known as the elixir of life.
XEOZ6 TIL the sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite losing that much material, it has only lost about 0.05% of it's original mass over the past 4.5 billion years.
m11XM TIL our brain stems, inherited from amphibian ancestors, still spurt out odd signals producing hiccups that are essentially the same phenomenon as gill breathing.