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TIL a Bill Ripken baseball card with the words “fuck face” written on the bat he’s holding went into circulation unnoticed.

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0dekR TIL that Nectanebo II was the last of the native Egyptian kings. Since then (340 BC) Egypt has been ruled by non-natives till the Egyptian revolution in 1952.
9xRm TIL Because Jupiter is so heavy and far away, that the Sun also orbits Jupiter. And Jupiter orbits a point outside of the sun itself. This is called the ‘Barycenter’.
E15a0 TIL for a period in the early 1970s the North Korean GDP per capita was higher than the South Korean one.
v1blB TIL about the Halo Drive, a proposed method for interstellar travel that combines black holes, gravitational slingshots, lasers, and solar sails to propel a ship close to the speed of light without expending fuel.
l6YG TIL An eight year old boy in India is the worlds youngest known serial killer