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TIL that Persian and Farsi are just different names for the same language

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vP1Z8 TIL that there are more trees on earth (3 trillion) than stars in the Milky Way (100-400 billion).
jNjkN TIL the original Pong game created by Al Alcorn had a glitch that would make the paddles on both sides not go all the way to the top. This was due to a defect in the circuit. Alcorn wanted to fix it but decided it was important because two good players would have played forever if it had been fixed.
v17kR TIL before becoming a popular "horror" author for children R.L. Stine wrote joke books, but more importantly for Bazooka Joe comics and the jokes on Bazooka bubble gum wrappers.
E1mLP TIL Tupper’s self referential formula is an inequality that plots anything you can fit in a 106x17 pixels rectangle in a certain interval on the Y-axis. As a consequence, we can state that for every one of us there is an interval where the formula plots our name and the date of our death.
gM0yL TIL that Over 11 million Getty images, forming the Bettmann Archive, is preserved inside a cold, heavily guarded limestone mine, hundreds of feet beneath the ground, near Pittsburgh.