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TIL that the Secret Language of Fans was more a marketing ploy to sell fans, then an actual language of signals that women used and men understood.

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bjaQ TIL there are fungi that eat radiation growing inside the Chernobyl power plant
QBRe TIL Nearly half the gold ever mined has come from one place: Witwatersrand, South Africa.
xVJab TIL that 70,000 years ago a red dwarf named Scholz’s Star and it’s brown dwarf companion passed through the Oort Cloud and came less than a light year from earth.
EAmV TIL of the 1833 Leonids meteor shower, the largest one ever recorded estimated at 240 000 “shooting stars” per hour (~67 every second) radiating from Leo constellation over a 9 hour period. The event had such an impact on society that it was used to date people with no birth certificate.
5Yblr TIL: Ninjas would carry crickets or cicadas to disguise their sound when they needed.