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TIL that half of the Earth's subsurface heat comes from radioactive decay, while the other half is still left over from when the Earth formed

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5YagD TIL about a meteor storm in 1833 that filled the sky with more than 72,000 meteors per hour
5gkQ TIL Judge Judy isn’t actually a judge on her television show, but is actually playing the role of an arbiter. Also, the show pays for any money awarded to the plaintiff.
4X68a TIL London house prices are 14.5 x average earnings making it the most unaffordable city in the world to buy a home
j8VX TIL it would take a computer program 550 years to crack a password like ‘bighaystrawstack’, and only 3 days for one like 'Tr0ub4dor&3’.
9YkOX TIL after Nicole van den Hurk's death, her stepbrother falsely confessed to the killing in order to get her body exhumed for DNA tests, leading to the arrest and prosecution of her real attacker