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TIL Proxima Centuauri, the nearest-known star to the Sun, is 4.244 lightyears (about 40.15 trillion kilometres or 24.95 trillion miles) away from it.

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1dJ7 TIL Genghis Khan would marry off a daughter to the king of an allied nation, then assign his new son-in-law to military duty in the Mongol wars, while the daughter took over the king’s rule. Most sons-in-law died in combat, allowing him to build a shield around the Mongol lands.
mx6Vp TIL that the animals commonly referred to as "Buffalo" in North America are actually not Buffalo at all, they're Bison. True Buffalo look much more similar to long-horned cattle.
XybE TIL that astronaut Alan Shepard peed himself minutes before becoming the first American in space.
WkMWd TIL that in 2007, three cases of perfectly preserved whisky were discovered, frozen into the ice for a beneath Shackleton’s base camp at Cape Royds. These were personally ordered by Sir Ernest Shackleton in 1907.
QBoM TIL In 2014, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is the only film in the top 10 worldwide box office to be completely original.