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TIL that the Sun is not the center of our solar system, because of the gravity of other planets, the Sun also revolves around a point called barycenter.

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GYVM7 TIL that Marie Skłodowska Curie, the first and only woman awarded twice a Nobel Prize, married with Pierre Curie (Nobel Prize for Chemisty), had a daughter that was awarded too, jointly with his husband in 1935. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date.
x6JAo TIL human sweat is the most extreme and distinctively human evolutionary trait as a whole.
neK97 TIL Carl Sagan convinced NASA to turn the Voyager Spacecraft towards earth and take the iconic “Pale Blue Dot” photo nearly 4 billions miles away from earth
WRD9 TIL in the famous Casablanca scene where French refugees defy the Nazis by singing their national anthem, many are played by actual refugees who had just fled the Nazis – which is why many are visibly weeping as they sing
kOoyd TIL Hiroaki Aoki moved to NYC from Japan where he would work 7 days a week in an ice cream truck he rented in Harlem. Using the $10,000 he saved from the business, he convinced his father to invest in a four-table teppanyaki restaurant which would be named "Benihana" after the red Safflower.