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TIL On average, the sun rotates on its axis once every 27 days. However, its equator spins the fastest and takes about 24 days to rotate, while the poles take more than 30 days

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R7yD7 TIL that a person's ability for spacial and verbal memory can be affected by which nostril is used: left, right, or alternate nostril breathing
VMaLD TIL about Adolph Metzger, a bugler who used his instrument as a weapon until it was battered shapeless in the Fetterman Fight. Metzger was the only soldier whose dead body was not mutilated. Instead the Indians covered him with a buffalo hide. His dented bugle is now displayed in a Wyoming museum.
4Xp5a TIL Musician James McCartney (only son of Paul McCartney) was first inspired to play the guitar after seeing Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future, not by his father or The Beatles.
R54j TIL that a police officer offered to split a lottery ticket with a waitress at his favorite restaurant in Yonkers, NY in place of a tip. The ticket was a winner worth $6 million, which he split with her without hesitation. “If I say I’ll do something, I do it. I hope money never changes me.”
l7W1 TIL that William Shakespeare invented the word “swagger.”