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TIL The yellow crystals that sometimes form after you deal with a zit/pimple are called Exudate. They are a mix of mostly proteins, white blood cells, and fribrin.

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VBpjk TIL that Planets don't orbit exactly the sun's center — they orbit a common center of mass in between their and the sun's center called the barycenter. The barycenter of Jupiter and sun actually just outside the sun's surface!
mxDoY TIL that all 11 films adapting Lemmy Caution, an American character written by a British writer in a series of English novels, are in Dutch or French.
1aEE8 TIL there is a chicken breed with black skin, bones, and organs!
e8BL TIL the FBI recruited a mafia enforcer to help solve the slaying of three civil rights workers by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in the 1960s. Gregory Scarpa kidnapped a klansman, put a gun in his mouth and forced him to reveal the spot where the three had been buried.
wLoE7 TIL in 1972, D.Hampton of the Falcons, vowed to hit 1000 yds rushing before the end of the season. Very last game, with a few seconds to play, he hits 1k, receives a standing ovation and given the game ball. The next play, he was tackled for a loss and ended the season with 995 yards.