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TIL the “Great Attractor” is a gravitational anomaly the earth is being pulled towards at 600km/s

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KyoG TIL the first Witness Protection Program in the USA was for protecting people testifying against the KKK
8aaPZ TIL that if you spent one day on each of the islands in the Phillippines, it would take you almost 21 years to visit them all.
nMYo TIL that Epicurus is a renowned, Ancient Greek philosopher who believed that friends were the greatest source of everlasting pleasure to an individual. He lived on a simple diet of bread & water, focusing on rational pleasures.
wLgKY TIL that the Free French forces that liberated Paris in WW2 were pre-selected to be completely white, despite colored soldiers making up a majority of the Free French forces. Both the US and UK demanded their exclusion from the liberation.
e0Awb TIL that Jonathan Winters' career started when he entered a contest in which the top prize was a watch. Having lost his watch, his wife encouraged him to enter the contest, which he won